Tamasa

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Tamasa
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Tamasa tristigma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Cicadomorpha
Superfamily: Cicadoidea
Family: Cicadidae
Genus: Tamasa
Distant, 1905 [1] [2]

Tamasa is a genus of cicadas, commonly known as 'bunyips', in the family Cicadidae and tribe Tamasini, that is found along much of the eastern coast of Australia, from the Cape York Peninsula of Far North Queensland southwards to Ulladulla on the south coast of New South Wales. It was described in 1905 by English entomologist William Lucas Distant. [1]

Species

As of 2025 there were five described species in the genus: [2]

References

  1. 1 2 Distant, WL (1905). "Rhynchotal notes.-XXXV". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7 (16): 265–281.
  2. 1 2 "Genus Tamasa Distant, 1905". Australian Faunal Directory. Dept of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia. 2025. Retrieved 2025-09-05.


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