| Pauropsalta | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Tribe: | Cicadettini |
| Genus: | Pauropsalta Goding & Froggatt, 1904 |
| Type species | |
| Pauropsalta leurensis | |
Pauropsalta is a genus of cicadas belonging to the family Cicadidae, first described in 1904 by Frederic Webster Goding and Walter Wilson Froggatt. [1] [2]
The species of this genus are found in all states and territories of Australia. [1]
Species: [3]
Cicadidae, the true cicadas, is the largest family of cicadas, with more than 3,200 species worldwide. The oldest known definitive fossils are from the Paleocene, a nymph from the Cretaceous Burmese amber has been attributed to the family, but could also belong to the Tettigarctidae.
The Cicadinae are a subfamily of cicadas, containing the translucent cicadas. They are robust cicadas and many have gaudy colors, but they generally lack the butterfly-like opaque wing markings found in many species of the related Tibiceninae.
Cryptotympanini is a tribe of cicadas in the family Cicadidae. They are found in the Nearctic, Palearctic, Indomalaya, Oceania, and Afrotropics.
The Platypleurini are a tribe of cicadas from the Afrotropical and Oriental regions There are at least 30 genera and 240 described species in Platypleurini.
Diceroprocta swalei is a species of cicada in the family Cicadidae. It is found in Central America and North America.
Carinetini is a tribe of cicadas in the family Cicadidae, found in the neotropics. There are about 7 genera and at least 90 described species in Carinetini.
Kanakia is a genus of cicadas in the family Cicadidae. There are about seven described species in Kanakia.
Orapa is a genus of cicadas in the family Cicadidae, found in tropical Africa. About five described species are in Orapa. Orapa is the only genus of the tribe Orapini.
Punia is a genus of cicadas in the family Cicadidae endemic to Australia. Members of the genus are called grass pygmies. There are currently five described species in Punia. They are found in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland. The genus was considered to be a monotypic genus only containing P. minima until the 2020 description of four congeners.
Tamasa is a genus of cicadas in the family Cicadidae. There are at least four described species in Tamasa.
Chlorocystini is a tribe of cicadas in the family Cicadidae. There are at least 20 genera and 170 described species in Chlorocystini.
Macrotristriini is a tribe of cicadas in the family Cicadidae. There are at least 2 genera and 20 described species in Macrotristriini, all found in Australia.
Hyalessa is a genus of cicadas in the subfamily Cicadinae, found in the Palearctic and East Asia. It is the sole genus in the tribe Sonatini.
Talcopsaltria is a genus of cicadas in the family Cicadidae. There is at least one described species in Talcopsaltria, T. olivei, found in Australia, in Queensland. The genus was first described in 2008 by Maxwell Sydney Moulds.
Yoyetta is a genus of cicadas in the family Cicadidae. The genus was erected in 2012 to accommodate nine Australian species previously assigned to the genus Cicadetta.
Pauropsalta extrema is a cicada, in the Cicadettini tribe of the cicada family, Cicadidae, first described by William Lucas Distant in 1892, as Melampsalta extrema, and transferred to the genus, Pauropsalta, in 1904 by Frederic Webster Goding and Walter Wilson Froggatt.