Yoyetta timothyi

Brown Firetail Cicada at O'Connor, ACT

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Identification history

	Yoyetta timothyi	16 Dec 2016	MichaelBedingfield
	Unverified	11 Dec 2016	David

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Filed here by prey rather than predator - trying to ID the cicada. It was a big robberfly, and struggled to fly carrying this load.

2 comments

lpopple wrote:

13 Dec 2016

Nice photo! The cicada (prey) is a female Brown Firetail (Yoyetta sp. nr denisoni), see http://dr-pop.net/509.htm

David wrote:

21 Dec 2016

Thanks for the ID, lpopple! A brown firetail. I think a few bio specialties could take a leaf out of the Cicadoidean notebook when it comes to common naming. Cicadas have the best.

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Sighting information

1 Abundance
10 Dec 2016 04:38 PM Recorded on
David Recorded by
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Insects Cicadas (Hemiptera, Cicadoidea) David Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

25mm to 50mm Animal size

Species information

Yoyetta timothyi Scientific name
Brown Firetail Cicada Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 697.04m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning
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Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

South Australia

Victoria

Tasmania