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Firetail yoyetta ♂ final moult (Yoyetta abdominalis) <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/36532/firetail_yoyetta_yoyetta_abdominalis.html" title="Firetail yoyetta ♂ (Yoyetta abdominalis)"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/2532/36532_thumb.JPG?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=16s3TLrSFnK4Uon9%2BfNGqt5ruUk%3D" width="200" height="150" alt="Firetail yoyetta ♂ (Yoyetta abdominalis) A small plain brown &#039;cicada&#039; (24mm) has just emerged from it&#039;s final moult to become a beautiful cream, pink, yellow and green adult with white veined wings.. but only for a short while. After another hour it will become nearly all black with an orange and yellow tuft at the tip of the abdomen. It all happened about 1.5 metres up the trunk of a large girthed eucalyptus. <br />
The whole process then took about 40 minutes. The wing expansion was impressive as it only took about 3 minutes.<br />
On the trunk of Eucalyptus viminalis in local nature reserve.<br />
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A small plain brown &#039;cicada&#039; (24mm) has just emerged from it&#039;s final moult to become a beautiful cream, pink, yellow and green adult with white veined wings.. but only for a short while. After another hour it will become nearly all black with an orange and yellow tuft at the tip of the abdomen. It all happened about 1.5 metres up the trunk of a large girthed eucalyptus. <br />
The whole process then took about 40 minutes. The wing expansion was impressive as it only took about 3 minutes.<br />
On the trunk of Eucalyptus viminalis in local nature reserve.<br />
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Firetail yoyetta ♂ final moult (Yoyetta abdominalis)

Firetail yoyetta ♂ (Yoyetta abdominalis) A small plain brown 'cicada' (24mm) has just emerged from it's final moult to become a beautiful cream, pink, yellow and green adult with white veined wings.. but only for a short while. After another hour it will become nearly all black with an orange and yellow tuft at the tip of the abdomen. It all happened about 1.5 metres up the trunk of a large girthed eucalyptus. <br />
The whole process then took about 40 minutes. The wing expansion was impressive as it only took about 3 minutes.<br />
On the trunk of Eucalyptus viminalis in local nature reserve.<br />
http://www.jungledragon.com/image/36531/firetail_yoyetta_final_moult_yoyetta_abdominalis.html Australia,Geotagged,Spring,Yoyetta abdominalis

A small plain brown 'cicada' (24mm) has just emerged from it's final moult to become a beautiful cream, pink, yellow and green adult with white veined wings.. but only for a short while. After another hour it will become nearly all black with an orange and yellow tuft at the tip of the abdomen. It all happened about 1.5 metres up the trunk of a large girthed eucalyptus.
The whole process then took about 40 minutes. The wing expansion was impressive as it only took about 3 minutes.
On the trunk of Eucalyptus viminalis in local nature reserve.

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Yoyetta abdominalis is a Cicade in the Yoyetta genus.

Similar species: True Bugs
Species identified by Ferdy Christant
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By Mark Ridgway

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Uploaded Mar 7, 2016. Captured Nov 28, 2012 22:14 in 12-20 Talaskia Rd, Upper Ferntree Gully VIC 3156, Australia.
  • EX-Z2000
  • f/3.4
  • 1/60s
  • ISO100
  • 8.46mm