Top End Heath-buzzer
Drymopsalta acrotela Ewart and Popple, 2013
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Female
Species number (TNS):
623.
Fore wing length:
10–13 mm.
Distribution and seasonality:
Restricted to the Top End of the
Northern Territory where it is
known from Litchfield National
Park east to the north-eastern
section of Kakadu National Park.
Adults occur during November.
Notable localities:
Buley Rockhole, Tolmer Falls,
East Alligator River.
Habitat:
Associated with shrubby Callitrix
woodland on sandstone.
Calling song and behaviour:
A long high-pitched buzz
followed by a series of chirps,
with each chirp followed by a
sharp, barely discernable, “tick”.
Inglewood Heath-buzzer has a
call that sounds identical, but it
occurs in southern Queensland.
Adults sit on the branches and
stems of Callitrix. Only people
with particularly good hearing
will be capable of detecting the
call of this species.
Similar species:
Inglewood Heath-buzzer, Brown
Heath-buzzer.
dr-pop.net database record
Currently known extent
Habitat
Male
