Macrotristria angularis

Macrotristria angularis, commonly known as the cherrynose, is an Australian cicada native to eastern Australia, where it is found in sclerophyll forests.

German naturalist Ernst Friedrich Germar described the cherrynose in 1834 as Cicada angularis,[1] reporting its type locality incorrectly as Sierra Leone.

[2] Swedish entomologist Carl Stål named the genus Macrotristria in 1870, though this was misspelt as Macrotristia and Macrotistria in some later publications.

[6] The adult cherrynose is found on the upper branches and trunks of tall eucalypts in sclerophyll forests, and is becoming rare in the Sydney region.

[4] They have also been recorded from sheoaks, apples (Angophora), native cypress (Callitris) and Tamarix aphylla.

specimen in the Australian Museum