Erempsalta

Erempsalta is a monotypic genus of cicadas in the family Cicadidae, subfamily Cicadettinae and tribe Cicadettini. It was described in 2012 by Australian entomologist Maxwell Sydney Moulds. The single species occurs in Central Australia, with the type specimen collected at Hermannsburg.^[1]

Erempsalta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder:	Cicadomorpha
Superfamily:	Cicadoidea
Family:	Cicadidae
Subfamily:	Cicadettinae
Genus:	Erempsalta Moulds, 2012[1]

Etymology

The genus name Erempsalta is a combination derived from the Greek eremia ('solitude', 'desert' or 'wilderness'), with reference to the arid and isolated type locality, combined with Latin psalta (from psaltria, a female harpist) which is a traditional suffix for many cicada generic names.^[1]

Species

As of 2025 there was one described species in the genus:^[2]

• Erempsalta hermannsburgensis (Distant, 1907) (Turkey Bush Cicada)