Yellowbelly
Psaltoda harrisii
The yellowbelly is a cicada from eastern Australia. It looks a lot like a bigger cicada called the black prince. You have to look closely at its wings to tell the two apart.
Lives in
Eastern Australia, on trees
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
Like other cicadas, it drinks juice from plants with its sharp, straw-like mouth.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Yellowbelly 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
The black prince has a dark mark shaped like a Z near the tip of each front wing. The yellowbelly does not have it.
2
The yellowbelly is smaller than the black prince.
3
Like other cicadas, the males make a loud buzzing song to call the females.
you asked
Most asked questions about Yellowbelly
?Where does the yellowbelly live?
In eastern Australia.
?How can you tell a yellowbelly from a black prince?
Look at the tips of the front wings. The black prince has a dark Z-shaped mark there, and the smaller yellowbelly does not.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Psaltoda harrisii
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Cicadidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Psaltoda harrisii (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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