Species Myopsalta waterhousei (Distant, 1905)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Melampsalta waterhousei Distant, W.L. 1905. Rhynchotal notes–XXXV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 265-281 [271].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Adelaide, SA.
• Melampsalta kewelensis Distant, W.L. 1907. Rhynchotal notes.—XLIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 20: 411-423 [420].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Kewel, VIC.

Generic Combinations

• Myopsalta waterhousei (Distant, 1905). —
  Moulds, M.S. 2012. A review of the genera of Australian cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea). Zootaxa 3287: 1-262 [75, 151]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Tussock grassland.

Extra Ecological Information

Usually long and partly or completely browned grass is preferred.

History of changes