Species Physeema labyrinthica (Walker, 1850)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dundubia labyrinthica 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. [75].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, New Holland.
• Cicada interstans Walker, F. 1858. List of specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. London : British Museum (Natural History) 369 pp. [32].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Adelaide, SA.

Generic Combinations

• Physeema labyrinthica (Walker, 1850). —
  Moulds, M.S. 2012. A review of the genera of Australian cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea). Zootaxa 3287: 1-262 [24]
• Cicadetta labyrinthica (Walker, 1850).

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Coastal.

Extra Ecological Information

Common on dunes and near-coastal heath, see Meagher, D. & Kohout, M. 2001. A Field Guide to Wilson's Promontory. Australia & New Zealand : Oxford University Press 360 pp. 48 col. pls..

General References

Meagher, D. & Kohout, M. 2001. A Field Guide to Wilson's Promontory. Australia & New Zealand : Oxford University Press 360 pp. 48 col. pls. (information on call - "a regular ticking song like the sound of an automatic sprinkler" - and ecology)

Common Name References

Meagher, D. & Kohout, M. 2001. A Field Guide to Wilson's Promontory. Australia & New Zealand : Oxford University Press 360 pp. 48 col. pls. (Dune Ticker)

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