Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Tamasa tristigma (Germar, 1834)

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Species Tamasa tristigma (Germar, 1834)

Brown Bunyip

  • Cicada tristigma Germar, E.F. 1834. Observations sur plusieurs espšces du genre Cicada, Latr. Revue Entomologique (Silbermann) 2: 49-82, pls. 19-26 [69].
    Type data:
     Syntype(s) OUM ♀ (for information about the syntype, see Ewart (1990)), unknown.
  • Tibicen kurandae Goding & Froggatt, 1904.
    Type data:
     Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) ♂ ♀, Kuranda, QLD.

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Open forest.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults are often found on Casuarina trees including C. glauca and C. torulosa (but not C. cunninghamiana), and sometimes on sally wattle (Acacia prominens).