Species Tryella crassa Moulds, 2003

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• Tryella crassa Moulds, M.S. 2003. An appraisal of the cicadas of the genus Abricta Stål and allied genera (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae). Records of the Australian Museum 55: 245-304 [283-284].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K179830 ♂, 16 km E of Cloncurry, QLD.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Grassland, low open shrubland, xylem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults appear to favour shrubs and low eucalypt saplings, although some populations have been confined to grass in areas where there was a total or substantial absence of trees and shrubs.

History of changes