![]() ![]() Australian entomologist Walter Wilson Froggatt reported that the green form was known as green Monday (alongside yellow Monday for the yellow form) in his 1907 work Australian Insects. The names for the green and yellow forms have been recorded since at least 1896. It was formerly commonly known as the Great Green Cicada in addition, the various colour forms have different vernacular names, including Yellow Monday for a common yellow morph Chocolate Soldier for a rare dark tan form Blue Moon for a rare turquoise form and Masked Devil for its red-orange form. ![]() It was the second Australian species of cicada described after the double drummer ( Thopha saccata). Ernst Friedrich Germar named it Cicada olivacea in 1830. Taxonomy Ĭyclochila australasiae was first described as Tettigonia australasiae in 1805 by amateur zoologist Edward Donovan, who reported that it was common in New South Wales and many specimens had been collected and sent to England. It is one of the loudest insects in the world. Green specimens are commonly known as green grocers and yellow ones as yellow mondays. It is distributed through coastal regions of southeastern Australia. ![]() Cyclochila australasiae is a species of cicada and one of Australia's most familiar insects. ![]()
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