Green Taurella Taurella viridis (Ashton, 1912)
Fauna Portal species: 2024
Taurella viridis male, dorsal (HBI N28558-3; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: Alexander Greenhill (2025)
Fauna Portal Image No. 10970Diagnosis
(after Ashton 1912): Allied to Melampsalta sulcata Distant, with the same narrow crescent-shaped opercula, but differing in the shorter tegmina, as well as in colour. Melampsalta froggatti Distant and and M. capistrata Ashton have similar curiously shaped opercula.
Linnean Type
Holotype male, Queensland (?), coll. F.P. Dodd, Australian Museum (Ashton 2012).
Australia
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- Western Australia
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Publications
(1912): Some new Australian Cicadidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 24: 221 - 229WEB