Species Thaumastopsaltria globosa (Distant, 1897)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acrilla globosa Distant, W.L. 1897. Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia orientale. XVII. Additions to our knowledge of the Cicadidae of New Guinea. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 17: 378-383 [383].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Paumomu River, SE N Guinea.
  Paralectotype(s) MSNG ♀ (possibly near present day Sogeri, PNG), Haveri, New Guinea.
• Thaumastopsaltria glauca Ashton, H. 1912. Some new Australian Cicadidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 24: 221-229, pls 49-51 [225].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM ♂, ♀, Cape York, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Boer, A.J. de 1992. The taxonomy and biogeography of the genus Thaumastopsaltria Kirkaldy, 1900 (Homoptera, Tibicinidae). Beaufortia 43(3): 17-44 [34]

Generic Combinations

• Thaumastopsaltria globosa (Distant, 1897). —
  Distant, W.L. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Homoptera. Part 1. Cicadidae. London : British Museum iii 207 pp. [160]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, xylem feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults inhabit tree foliage in rainforest, in bushland at rainforest margins and in rainforest remnants along streams.

History of changes