Species Auscala spinosa (Goding & Froggatt, 1904)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Melampsalta spinosa Goding, F.W. & Froggatt, W.W. 1904. Monograph of the Australian Cicadidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29(3): 561-670, pls xviii, xix [635].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC ♀, New Holland.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC ♂, New Holland.
• Kobonga clara Distant, W.L. 1916. Description of a new species belonging to the family Cicadidae. The Entomologist 49: 155-156 [155].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Hay, NSW.

Generic Combinations

• Auscala spinosa (Goding & Froggatt, 1904). —
  Moulds, M.S. 2012. A review of the genera of Australian cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea). Zootaxa 3287: 1-262 [57, 74]
• Cicadetta spinosa (Goding & Froggatt, 1904).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: 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), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Eucalyptus trees.

History of changes