Yoyetta Explained

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.

There are currently more than 20 described species in Yoyetta, all found in Australia.

Species

These species belong to the genus Yoyetta:

• Yoyetta aaede (F.Walker, 1850) (adelaide firetail)
• Yoyetta abdominalis (Distant, 1892) (golden-haired firetail)
• Yoyetta celis (Moulds, 1988) (silver princess)
• Yoyetta cumberlandi Emery, Emery & Popple, 2015 (Cumberland ambertail)
• Yoyetta denisoni (Distant, 1893) (black firetail)
• Yoyetta electrica Emery, Emery & Popple, 2019
• Yoyetta fluviatilis Emery, Emery & Popple, 2015 (River ambertail)
• Yoyetta grandis Emery, Emery & Popple, 2019 (red-eyed firetail)
• Yoyetta humphreyae (varied ambertail)
• Yoyetta hunterorum (Moulds, 1988) (sydney treetop ticker)
• Yoyetta incepta (F.Walker, 1850)
• Yoyetta kershawi (victorian firetail)
• Yoyetta landsboroughi (Distant, 1882) (small bassian ambertail)
• Yoyetta nigrimontana Emery, Emery & Popple, 2015
• Yoyetta regalis Emery, Emery & Popple, 2019 (Red ringer)
• Yoyetta repetens Emery, Emery & Popple, 2015 (zipping ambertail)
• Yoyetta robertsonae Moulds, Popple & Emery, 2020^[1] (clicking ambertail)
• Yoyetta serrata Emery, Emery & Popple, 2019 (serrated firetail)
• Yoyetta spectabilis Emery, Emery & Popple, 2019 (wavering firetail)
• Yoyetta subalpina Emery, Emery & Popple, 2019 (subalpine firetail)
• Yoyetta timothyi Emery, Emery & Popple, 2019 (Brown firetail)
• Yoyetta toowoombae (Distant, 1915)
• Yoyetta tristrigata (Goding & Froggatt, 1904)
• Yoyetta verrens Emery, Emery & Popple, 2019

Further reading

• A review of the genera of Australian cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea). 2012. Moulds . M. S.. Zootaxa. 3287. 1. 1. 978-1-86977-890-3. 10.11646/zootaxa.3287.1.1. free.
• An Appraisal of the Higher Classification of Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea) with Special Reference to the Australian Fauna. 2005. Moulds . M. S.. Records of the Australian Museum. 57. 3. 375–446. 10.3853/j.0067-1975.57.2005.1447.
• Cicada fossils (Cicadoidea: Tettigarctidae and Cicadidae) with a review of the named fossilised Cicadidae. 2018. Moulds . M. S.. Zootaxa. 4438. 3. 443–470. 10.11646/zootaxa.4438.3.2. free. 30313130.
• A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification. 2018. Marshall . David C.. Moulds . Max. Hill . Kathy B. R.. Price . Benjamin W.. Wade . Elizabeth J.. Owen . Christopher L.. Goemans . Geert. Marathe . Kiran. Sarkar . Vivek. Cooley . John R.. Sanborn . Allen F.. Kunte . Krushnamegh. Villet . Martin H.. Simon . Chris. 4. Zootaxa. 4424. 1. 1–64. 10.11646/zootaxa.4424.1.1. 30313477.

Notes and References

1. Moulds. Maxwell Sydney. Popple. Lindsay W.. Emery. David L.. 2020-03-01. A new species of Yoyetta Moulds from south-eastern Australia with notes on relationships within the Yoyetta tristrigata species group (Hemiptera, Cicadidae, Cicadettini). Australian Entomologist. 47. 1. 25–38.