Thopha saccata, the double drummer, is the largest Australian species of cicada and reputedly the loudest insect in the world. Documented by the Danish...
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native to Australia. Five species are recognised, the double drummer (Thopha saccata), the northern double drummer (T. sessiliba), the golden drummer (T...
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second Australian species of cicada described after the double drummer (Thopha saccata). It was formerly commonly known as the Great Green Cicada; in addition...
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Arunta perulata (redirect from Thopha perulata)
5 kHz with a weak harmonic at 12 kHz. Like the related double drummer (Thopha saccata), its sac-like tymbal covers amplify its call. The white drummer is...
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An illustration of the cicada Thopha saccata in Kirby's 1885 Elementary text-book of entomology...
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Opisthoscelis pisiformis form galls. The adult double drummer cicada (Thopha saccata) lives in the tree, while larvae of the small staghorn beetle species...
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Moulds, 2008 (North-western Double Drummer) Thopha saccata (Fabricius, 1803) (Eastern Double Drummer) Thopha sessiliba Distant, 1892 (Northern Double Drummer)...
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