Species Parnquila hillieri (Distant, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Burbunga hillieri Distant, W.L. 1906. Undescribed Cicadidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 50: 148-154 [154].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, Killalpanima, 100 miles E of L. Eyre, SA.

Generic Combinations

• Parnquila hillieri (Distant, 1906). —
  Moulds, M.S. 2012. A review of the genera of Australian cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea). Zootaxa 3287: 1-262

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Xylem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Sandhill cane grass (Zygochloa paradoxa), which grows abundantly on sand dunes in thick stemmy shrub-like clumps.

History of changes