Thopha sessiliba

Thopha sessiliba
adult male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Family:
Cicadidae
Genus:
Thopha
Species:
T. sessiliba
Binomial name
Thopha sessiliba
Distant, 1892
Synonyms

Thopha stentor Buckton
Thopha nigricans Distant

Thopha sessiliba, commonly known as the northern double drummer, is an Australian cicada native to Queensland, the Northern Territory and northern Western Australia. Adults perch almost exclusively on ghost gums.[1]

William Lucas Distant described the northern double drummer in 1892, but incorrectly gave the type locality as Sydney.[1]

  1. ^ a b Moulds, Maxwell Sydney (1990). Australian Cicadas. Kensington, New South Wales: New South Wales University Press. pp. 56–58. ISBN 0-86840-139-0.