Cyclochila virens

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Cyclochila virens
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Specimen in the Australian Museum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Genus: Cyclochila
Species:
C. virens
Binomial name
Cyclochila virens
Distant, 1906

Cyclochila virens, commonly known as the northern greengrocer, is a species of cicada native to northeastern Queensland. [1]

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References

  1. Moulds, Maxwell Sydney (1990). Australian Cicadas. Kensington, New South Wales: New South Wales University Press. pp. 65–66. ISBN   0-86840-139-0.