Tettigarctidae

Taxobox
name = Hairy Cicadas
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hemiptera
subordo = Auchenorrhyncha
infraordo = Cicadomorpha
superfamilia = Cicadoidea
familia = Tettigarctidae
genus = "Tettigarcta"
genus_authority = White, 1845
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"Tettigarcta crinita" Distant, 1883
*"Tettigarcta tomentosa" White, 1845

The family Tettigarctidae, also known as the hairy cicadas is a small relictual family of primitive cicadas, containing a single genus "Tettigarcta" with two extant species, one in southern Australia ("Tettigarcta crinita"), and the other in Tasmania ("Tettigarcta tomentosa").

External links

* [http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/system/tettigar.htm CSIRO Tettigarctid page]