Chorus cicada, Amphipsalta zelandica, is endemic to New Zealand. Gillespies Beach, Westland Tai Poutini NP.

The chorus cicada, Amphipsalta zelandica, is the most common species of cicada in New Zealand, where it is endemic and found in most areas. They typically live in forests and areas with open bush, where their left-over nymph skins can be seen on tree trunks and branches during summer. Cicadas are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They have an exceptionally loud song, produced in most species by the rapid buckling and unbuckling of drumlike tymbals. Photographed at Gillespies Beach, near Fox Glacier, in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.

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The chorus cicada, Amphipsalta zelandica, is the most common species of cicada in New Zealand, where it is endemic and found in most areas. They typically live in forests and areas with open bush, where their left-over nymph skins can be seen on tree trunks and branches during summer. Cicadas are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They have an exceptionally loud song, produced in most species by the rapid buckling and unbuckling of drumlike tymbals. Photographed at Gillespies Beach, near Fox Glacier, in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.