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Exmouth Sandgrinder
Arenopsaltria exmouthensis
Arenopsaltria exmouthensis is a species of cicada in the true cicada family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 2025 by entomologists Maxwell Sydney Moulds and David Marshall.
From the article Arenopsaltria exmouthensis on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Measured forewing length was 30.5–33.6 mm in males, 28.8–34.3 mm in females; body length was 24.9–27.3 mm in males, 24.0–27.7 mm in females.
Range & habitat
The species is found in coastal Western Australia from the North West Cape peninsula southwards to Coral Bay and Miaboolya Beach, in the Carnarvon bioregion. It occurs in dune grass habitats.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
What it does
Scattered records suggest that adults may be present in their habitat for much of the year.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Behaviour”
In human culture
The specific epithet exmouthensis refers to the town of Exmouth near which the holotype was collected.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
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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 1697978.