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  12. ›Chlorocystini
Bottle Cicadas
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Bottle Cicadas

Chlorocysta

Chlorocysta is a genus of cicadas, also known as bottle cicadas, in the family Cicadidae, subfamily Cicadettinae and tribe Chlorocystini. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1851 by English entomologist John Obadiah Westwood.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Small Bottle Cicada

speciesChlorocysta vitripennis

Marbled Bottle Cicada

speciesChlorocysta suffusa

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 470189.