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Kōrero: Mountains

Alpine cicada

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Alpine cicada

New Zealand has the only alpine cicadas in the world. This one, Maoricicada mangu, lives in the eastern South Island, from the Kaikōuras south to the mountains around Tekapo.

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Cicada Central

by Chris Simon

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Andy Dennis, Mountains – Alpine plants and animals, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/14320/alpine-cicada (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Andy Dennis, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009, updated 1 February 2017.