Species Yoyetta abdominalis (Distant, 1892)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Melampsalta abdominalis Distant, W.L. 1892. On some undescribed Cicadidae, with synonymical notes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 9: 313-327 [323].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM ♂ ♀, VIC; BMNH ♂ ♀, VIC; TMH ♂ ♀, VIC.

Generic Combinations

• Cicadetta abdominalis (Distant, 1892). —
  Moulds, M.S. 1990. Australian Cicadas. Kensington : New South Wales University Press 217 pp. [155-156]
• Yoyetta abdominalis (Distant, 1892). —
  Moulds, M.S. 2012. A review of the genera of Australian cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea). Zootaxa 3287: 1-262 [237]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Cicadetta abdominalis sp. aff. ["Tea tree firetail"]. —
  Haywood, B.T. 2007. A study of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Homoptera) in the south east of South Australia — part III. South Australian Naturalist 81: 13–18 [14]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Open forest.

General References

Emery, D.L., Emery, N.J. & Popple, L.W. 2019. A Revision of the Yoyetta abdominalis (Distant) Species Group of Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae), Introducing Eight New Species. Records of the Australian Museum 71(7): 277-347 [298] (redescription)

History of changes