Species Psaltoda plaga (Walker, 1850)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cicada plaga 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. [109].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, New Holland.
• Cicada argentata Germar, E.F. 1834. Observations sur plusieurs espèces du genre Cicada, Latr. Revue Entomologique (Silbermann) 2: 49-82, pls 19-26 [66] [this species has been widely known as Psaltoda argentata (Germar). However, the name argentata cannot be applied to this species as it is preoccupied by Cicadetta argentata (Olivier, 1790), the name of a European species, both species being originally called Cicada argentata. The next available name for P. argentata is plaga Walker, and this should therefore be used (Moulds, 1990)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM ♂ (for comments on the syntype, see Ewart (1990)), Australasia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Permanent pond.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults often frequent sheoaks, especially the river sheoak (Casuarina cunninghamiana).

History of changes