Length 5mm male, 7mm female.
Classification
from Australian Faunal Directory
Order Hemiptera - bugs, hoppers and scale insects
Suborder Auchenorrhyncha - Cicadas, Hoppers, and Spittlebugs
Super-family Cercopoidea - Froghoppers and Spittlebugs - 40 species in Australia
Family Clastopteridae - Tube Spittlebugs, 10 named species in Australia
Genus Chaetophyes
Species Chaetophyes compacta