Cicadetta
| Cicadetta | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Genus: | Cicadetta Kolenati, 1857 |
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Cicadetta, in North America colloquially known as the "small grass cicadas", is a genus of generally small-bodied annual cicadas widespread across portions of the Nearctic, Palearctic, Oriental, and Ethiopian ecozones.[1] In older scientific and taxonomic literature, this genus was popularly referred to as Melampsalta. These cicadas occur in a diverse spectrum of habitats, although most taxa are typically associated with weedy meadows and tallgrass prairie ecosystems.
Many members of the genus inhabit Southern Europe, Greece, Anatolia, and coastal Mediterranean regions, and they have a long history of association with the civilizations of those areas; revered by many cultures for their complex, loud, and sometimes melodic courtship calls.
Most of the cicadas within this genus are classified by conservation groups as least concern, however; many species are endemic to a particular isolated area or they are threatened by habitat loss primarily due to grazing.
Species
- Cicadetta abscondita (Lee, 2008)
- Cicadetta afghanistanica (Dlabola, 1964)
- Cicadetta albipennis (Fieber, 1876)
- Cicadetta anapaisatica (Hertach, 2011)
- Cicadetta brevipennis (Fieber, 1872)
- Cicadetta calliope
- C. c. calliope (Walker, 1850)
- C. c. floridensis (Davis, 1920)
- Cicadetta camerona (Davis, 1920)
- Cicadetta cantilatrix (Sueur & Puissant, 2007)
- Cicadetta caucasica (Kolenati, 1857)
- Cicadetta celis (Moulds, 1988)
- Cicadetta cerdaniensis (Puissant & Boulard, 2000)
- Cicadetta dirfica (Gogala, Drosopoulos, & Trilar, 2011)
- Cicadetta eyrei (Distant, 1882)
- Cicadetta fangoana
- C. f. fangoana
- C. f. rufinervis (Boulard, 1980)
- Cicadetta fuscoclavalis (Chen, 1943)
- Cicadetta haematophleps (Fieber, 1876)
- Cicadetta hageni (Fieber, 1872)
- Cicadetta hannekeae (Gogala, Drosopoulos, & Trilar, 2008)
- Cicadetta hodoharai (Kato, 1940)
- Cicadetta konoi (Kato, 1937)
- Cicadetta kansa (Davis, 1919)
- Cicadetta kissavi (Gogala, Drosopoulos, & Trilar, 2009)
- Cicadetta laevifrons (Stal, 1870)
- Cicadetta limitata (Walker, 1852)
- Cicadetta macedonica (Schedl, 1999)
- Cicadetta mediterranea (Fieber, 1872)
- Cicadetta minuta (Ollenbach, 1929)
- Cicadetta montana
- C. m. montana (Scopoli, 1772)
- C. m. peregrina (Gogala, 1998)
- Cicadetta petrophila (Popov, Aronov, Sergeyeva, 1985)
- Cicadetta petryi (Schumacher, 1924)
- Cicadetta pieli (Kato, 1940)
- Cicadetta pilosa (Horvath, 1901)
- Cicadetta podolica (Eichwald, 1830)
- Cicadetta ramosi (Sanborn, 2009)
- Cicadetta sarasini (Distant, 1914)
- Cicadetta sibilatrix (Horvath, 1901)
- Cicadetta surinamensis (Kirkaldy, 1909)
- Cicadetta texana (Davis, 1936)
- Cicadetta transylvanica
- C. t. hyalinervis (Boulard, 1981)
- C. t. transylvanica (Fieber, 1876)
- Cicadetta tumidifrons (Horvath, 1911)
- Cicadetta tunisiaca (Karsch, 1890)
- Cicadetta turcica (Schedl, 2001)
- Cicadetta walkerella (Kirkaldy, 1909)
- Cicadetta yamashitai (Esaki & Ishihara, 1950)
References
- Gogala, M. ; T. Trilar & S. Drosopoulos, 2011: Two new species and a new genus of Cicadettini (Hemiptera, Cicadidae) from the Greek island of Evia. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 58 (1): 105-117. Abstract: doi:10.1002/mmnd.201100007.
- Hertach, T. 2011: Spectacular song pattern from the Sicilian Mountains: The new cicada species Cicadetta anapaistica sp. n. (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Zootaxa, 2771: 25-40.
- Sanborn, A.F. 2009: A new species of Cicadetta (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Cicadidae) from Hispaniola. Caribbean journal of science, 45(1): 1-7. ISSN 0008-6452
- T. Hertach et al., 2015: "Songs, genetics, and morphology: revealing the taxonomic units in the European Cicadetta cerdaniensis cicada group, with a description of new taxa (Hemiptera: Cicadidae)", Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 173, Issue 2, pages 320–351, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12212.