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Distribution: Central Australia, including arid parts of Queensland, the Northern Territory and South Australia extending south into the temperate grasslands of New South Wales and western Victoria. Area of diversity: Only a single species is known to occur at any one location. List of species: Simpson Desert Grass- shaker Xeropsalta aridula Ewart, 2018 Bee Gleeper Xeropsalta festiva (Distant, 1907) Green Grass-shaker Xeropsalta rattrayi Ewart, 2018 Thomson River Grass- shaker Xeropsalta thomsoni Ewart, 2018

Bee Gleeper

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Thomson River Grass-shaker

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