- Animals
- ›Arthropods
- ›Hexapods
- ›Insects
- ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
- ›True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and allies
- ›True Hoppers
- ›Spittlebugs, Cicadas, Leafhoppers and Treehoppers
- ›Cicadas
- ›Typical Cicadas
- ›Cicadinae
- ›Tamasini
- ›Parnquila
Spinifex Buzzer
Parnquila venosa
Parnquila venosa, also known as the spinifex buzzer, is a species of cicada in the true cicada family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1907 by English entomologist William Lucas Distant.
From the article Parnquila venosa on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
The species occurs in arid central Australia from west of Alice Springs in the MacDonnell Ranges of the Northern Territory, eastwards to the eastern margin of the Simpson Desert in western Queensland. The associated habitat is spinifex grassland.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
What it does
The cicadas are xylem feeders. Adults are heard in January and February, clinging to the blades of spinifex grasses, uttering clean, pulsing, buzzing calls.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Behaviour”
Listen
Looking for field recordings…
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Parnquila venosa in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1007884.