Species Illyria australensis (Kirkaldy, 1909)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tettigia australensis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1909. Hemiptera, old and new, No. 2. The Canadian Entomologist 41(11): 388-392 [391].
• Cicada interrupta 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. [175] [primary junior homonym of Cicada interrupta Linnaeus].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, New Holland (=Australia).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Moulds, M.S. 1985. Illyria, a new genus for Australian cicadas currently placed in Cicada L. (=Tettigia Amyot) (Homoptera: Cicadidae). General and Applied Entomology 17: 25-35 [34]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Low open woodland.

History of changes