Ormiston Gorge FaunaBlack-footed Rock Wallaby Cicada Nymph Shell Case Coenotes eremophilae Diamond Dove Long-nosed Dragon White-necked Heron
In case you did not know, these are the empty nymph skin casing of a cicada, most likely the Orange Drummer that are found throughout Central Australia and the MacDonnell Ranges. It is from these shell casing that the final life cycle of the cicada from larva form to adult cicada.
These photographs were taken around Ormiston Gorge in the West MacDonnell Ranges.
You can check out more information and images under our Fauna Index about the cicada and the Orange Drummer that is quiet a common cicada found in Central Australia.
- Scientific classification
- Domain: Eukaryota
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Hemiptera
- Infraorder: Cicadomorpha
- Superfamily: Cicadoidea
- Family: CicadidaeGenus: Many
- Family: TettigarctidaeGenus: Tettigarcta
Ormiston Gorge FaunaBlack-footed Rock Wallaby Cicada Nymph Shell Case Coenotes eremophilae Diamond Dove Long-nosed Dragon White-necked Heron
Ormiston Gorge & PoundOrmiston Gorge Fauna Ormiston Gorge Flora Ormiston Gorge Landscape
West MacDonnell RangesBirthday Waterhole Ellery Creek Big Hole Finke Two Mile Glen Helen Gorge Jay Creek John Flynn’s Grave Historical Reserve Laura Creek Larapinta Drive Mount Sonder / Rwetyepme Namatjira Drive The Neil Hargrave Lookout Ochre Pits Ormiston Gorge & Pound Point Howard Lookout Redbank Gorge Simpsons Gap
MacDonnell RangesEast MacDonnell Ranges West MacDonnell Ranges Tjoritja West MacDonnell National Park