Double-spotted cicada
Galanga labeculata
Name means: “Galanga was the word for cicadas used by Aboriginal Australians around Sydney”
The double-spotted cicada is a cicada from eastern Australia. Like other cicadas, the males sing loudly in the warm months to call the females. It is so special that it has a whole group of its own, with no other species in it.
Lives in
Eastern Australia, in warm places
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Cicadas do not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
Like all cicadas, it drinks sap from plants through a mouth shaped like a tiny straw.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Double-spotted cicada about 12 km/h (7.5 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its group name, Galanga, was the word for cicadas used by Aboriginal Australians around where Sydney is today.
2
It is the only species in its group. An Australian insect expert, Max Moulds, set up that group in 2012.
3
Like other cicadas, its young grow up underground before climbing out to become grown-ups.
you asked
Most asked questions about Double-spotted cicada
?Is the double-spotted cicada dangerous?
No. Cicadas cannot bite or sting people.
?Where does the double-spotted cicada live?
In the warm parts of eastern Australia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Galanga labeculata
- Named by
- Distant, 1882
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Cicadidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Spotted wattle cicada
Where the facts come from
- Galanga (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by James K. Douch. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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