Brown bunyip
The brown bunyip is a cicada from eastern Australia. It can be rich brown, grey-brown, green or even blue-green. It clings to tree trunks and fills the air with a loud, buzzing, rattling song.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Its front wings are about 22 to 36 millimetres long.
It has lots of nicknames, like blue-green bunyip, heathlands bunyip and Whitsunday bunyip, for its different forms.
You can hear the adults singing from September all the way to June.
It lives in rainforests, open forests, heaths and even mangroves by the sea.
Most asked questions about Brown bunyip
?Where does the brown bunyip live?
Along the east coast of Australia, from Cape York in the north to the south coast of New South Wales.
?What does a brown bunyip sound like?
It makes a rough, buzzing and rattling call from tree trunks and branches.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tamasa tristigma
- Named by
- Germar, 1834
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Cicadidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Eastern bunyip
Where the facts come from
- Tamasa tristigma (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 Toby Hudson. CC BY-SA 3.0 au, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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