Story: Cicadas

More links and websites

• Cicada central

  The New Zealand section of this website provides information, photographs and recordings of the country's cicada species.

• New Zealand cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae): a virtual identification guide

  Contains photographs and drawings of many New Zealand cicadas, and a bibliography. A section of the Landcare Research website.

More suggestions and sources

• Arensburger, P., and others. ‘Biogeography and phylogeny of the New Zealand cicada genera (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA data.’ Journal of Biogeography 31, no. 4 (April 2004): 557–569.
• Brownlie, Betty. The life cycle of the cicada. Auckland: Scholastic, 2001.
• Crowe, Andrew. Which New Zealand insect? Auckland: Penguin, 2002.
• Dugdale, J. S. ‘Genera of New Zealand Cicadidae (Homoptera).’ New Zealand Journal of Science 14, no. 4 (1972): 856–882.
• Miller, D. Common insects in New Zealand, revised by A. K. Walker. Wellington: Reed, 1984.
• Sharell, Richard. New Zealand insects and their story. Rev. ed. Auckland: Collins, 1982.