Species Cicadetta oldfieldi (Distant, 1883)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Melampsalta oldfieldi Distant, W.L. 1883. Contributions to a proposed monograph of the homopterous family Cicadidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1883(1): 187-194, pl. 25, fig. 5a, b, c [191].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, New Holland.

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Low open shrubland.

Extra Ecological Information

Usually in wattles with broad phyllodes. Acacia cunninghami complex is favoured around Brisbane and A. spectabilis around Dalby. A. bancroftii and A. cretata are preferred on the Blackdown Tablelands.