Large Mallee Squawker
Pauropsalta infuscata (Goding and Froggatt, 1904)
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Male
Female
Species number (TNS):
693.
Fore wing length:
19–25 mm.
Distribution and seasonality:
Southern Australia from Condoblin in
central New South Wales west to Eyre
Peninsula in South Australia, with a
disjunct population in the southern
Goldfields region of Western Australia.
Notable localities:
Ravensthorpe, Samon Gums, Quorn,
Round Hill Nature Reserve.
Habitat:
Populations occur in mallee woodland.
Calling song and behaviour:
Low-pitched, with an extended notes
followed by a series of short notes, then
repeated. Males call from the main trunks
and lower branches of mallee eucalypts.
Similar species:
Slender Squawker.
dr-pop.net database record
Currently known extent
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