Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 56

Three new cicada species of the genus Gudanga Distant (Cicadidae: Cicadettinae: Cicadettini) from Queensland; comparative morphology, songs, behaviour and distributions

Citation

Ewart, A. & Popple, L.W. 2013. Three new cicada species of the genus Gudanga Distant (Insecta: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae: Cicadettini) from Queensland; comparative morphology, songs, behaviour and distributions. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 56(2): 355-406. Brisbane. ISSN 0079-8835. https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.56.2.2013-06

Published online

30 June 2013

Peer reviewed

Yes

DOI

https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.56.2.2013-06

Keywords

Cicadettini, cicadas, taxonomy, Gudanga, calling songs, song specificity, acoustic analyses, Queensland, acacias

Abstract 

Three additional cicada species belonging to the genus Gudanga are described from Queensland. G. lithgowae sp. nov. from south east Queeensland, and G. nowlandi sp. nov. and G. emmotti sp. nov., both from south west Queensland, bringing the total of described Queensland species to five. Detailed comparisons are presented of the morphologies, colourations, distributions and calling songs of the five Queensland Gudanga species. The calling songs are shown to also be characteristic for each of these species. These comprise two distinct song types, those with two echemes per song phrase and those with three echemes per song phrase. The latter type is characteristic of the three new species described in this paper, the specificity of the songs of each of these three species confirmed by detailed statistical analyses. A revised key is presented for the nine known Australian species.