| Tamasa | |
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| Tamasa tristigma | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Infraorder: | Cicadomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cicadoidea |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Genus: | Tamasa Distant, 1905 [1] [2] |
Tamasa is a genus of cicadas, commonly known as 'bunyips', in the family Cicadidae and tribe Tamasini, that is found along much of the eastern coast of Australia, from the Cape York Peninsula of Far North Queensland southwards to Ulladulla on the south coast of New South Wales. It was described in 1905 by English entomologist William Lucas Distant. [1]
