Arunta

For the Arunta/Arrernte/Arunda people of central Australia, see Arrernte people.

Arunta is a genus of cicadas, also called drummers, in the Thophini tribe of the Cicadinae subfamily. It is allied to the genus Thopha. These are the only Australian cicadas that have adapted to living in mangrove habitats.^[1][2]

Arunta
Arunta perulata, male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Family:	Cicadidae
Subfamily:	Cicadinae
Tribe:	Thophini
Genus:	Arunta Distant, 1904
Species
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Species

Two species have been described:

• Arunta interclusa (Walker, 1858) (Mangrove Drummer)
• Arunta perulata (Guérin-Méneville, 1831) (White Drummer)