Extreme Cicada Macrotristria extrema (Distant, 1892)
Fauna Portal species: 2026
Macrotristria extrema male, dorsal (HBI N2519-8; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: Alexander Greenhill (2025)
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(after Distant 1892): This somewhat large species of Cicada is allied to C. intersecta Walk., and like that species has the pale apex to the abdomen; but C. extrema may be at once recognized by the more robust and less symmetrical body, the head and thorax being relatively wider, the unspotted head and thorax and the longer second apical area to the tegmina.
Status
- native
Linnean Syntype(s)
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1892): On some undescribed Cicadidae, with synonymical notes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural history; Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 10: 54 - 67WEB