Yoyetta kershawi

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Hemiptera
Yoyetta kershawi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Genus: Yoyetta
Species:
Y. kershawi
Binomial name
Yoyetta kershawi
Synonyms
  • Melampsalta kershawi Goding & Froggatt, 1904
  • Cicadetta kershawi (Goding & Froggatt, 1904)

Yoyetta kershawi is a species of cicada, also known as the Victorian firetail, in the true cicada family, Cicadettinae subfamily and Cicadettini tribe. The species is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1904 by entomologists Frederic Webster Goding and Walter Wilson Froggatt.[1]

The length of the forewing is 28–35 mm.[2]

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