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The genus Samaecicada Popple and Emery comprised a single species that occurs in the Sydney Basin bioregion of central New South Wales. Here I describe a new species, Samaecicada mallee sp. n. from the mallee vegetation of south-eastern South Australia. Little is known of the two species of Samaecicada and their calling songs remain unknown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recent capture of two female specimens of the cicada species Yoyetta ngarabal Popple and Emery allows this description to complement that of the male. Due to particular variations in the hindwing plaga of Y. ngarabal, the definition for the plaga of species in the Yoyetta abdominalis (Distant) species group is extended to "opaque and almost entirely white or pink-orange along the majority of the jugal fold". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]