Species Atrapsalta encaustica (Germar, 1834)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cicada encaustica Germar, E.F. 1834. Observations sur plusieurs espèces du genre Cicada, Latr. Revue Entomologique (Silbermann) 2: 49-82, pls 19-26 [62].

  Type data:

   Lectotype OUM ♂, New Holland.
• Cicada arclus Walker, F. 1850. List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. London : British Museum pp.1–260. [184].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, New Holland.
• Cicada juvenis Walker, F. 1850. List of the specimens of homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. London : British Museum pp.1–260. [188].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Port Stephen, New Holland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stål, C. 1862. Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar öfver Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 19(9): 479-504 [482]

Generic Combinations

• Atrapsalta encaustica (Germar, 1834). —
  Owen, C.L. & Moulds, M.S. 2016. Systematics and phylogeny of the Australian cicada genus Pauropsalta Goding and Froggatt, 1904 and allied genera (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettini). Records of the Australian Museum (2016) 68: pp. 117-200 [167]
• Pauropsalta encaustica (Germar, 1834).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Open forest.

History of changes