Cicadetta
Cicadetta is a genus of generally small-bodied annual cicadas widespread across portions of the Palearctic, Oriental, and Ethiopian realms.[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. Several related species from North America were recently transferred to the genus Cicadettana.[2]
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| Cicadetta radiator - National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Tribe: | Cicadettini |
| Genus: | Cicadetta Kolenati, 1857 |
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, although many species are endemic to a particular isolated area or threatened by habitat loss primarily due to grazing.
Species
These 60 species belong to the genus Cicadetta:
- Cicadetta abscondita Lee, 2008 c g
- Cicadetta afghanistanica Dlabola, 1964 c g
- Cicadetta albipennis Fieber, 1876 c g
- Cicadetta anapaistica Hertach, 2011 c g
- Cicadetta brevipennis Fieber, 1876 c g
- Cicadetta calliope (Walker, 1850) i b
- Cicadetta camerona (Davis, 1920) i b
- Cicadetta cantilatrix Sueur & Puissant, 2007 c g
- Cicadetta caucasica (Kolenati, 1857)
- Cicadetta cerdaniensis Puissant & Boulard, 2000 c g
- Cicadetta chaharensis (Kato, 1938) c g
- Cicadetta concinna (Germar, 1821) c g
- Cicadetta diminuta Horváth, 1907 c g
- Cicadetta dirfica Gogala, Trilar & Drosopoulos, 2011 c g
- Cicadetta eyrei (Distant, 1882)
- Cicadetta fangoana Boulard, 1976 c g
- Cicadetta floridensis (Davis, 1920) b
- Cicadetta fraseri (China, 1938) c g
- Cicadetta fuscoclavalis (Chen, 1943)
- Cicadetta haematophleps Fieber, 1876 c g
- Cicadetta hageni Fieber, 1872 c g
- Cicadetta hannekeae Gogala, Drosopoulos & Trilar, 2008 c g
- Cicadetta hodoharai (Kato, 1940) c g
- Cicadetta inglisi (Ollenbach, 1929) c g
- Cicadetta inserta Horváth, 1911 c g
- Cicadetta intermedia (Ollenbach, 1929) c g
- Cicadetta juncta (Walker, F., 1850) c g
- Cicadetta kansa (Davis, 1919) i b
- Cicadetta kissavi Gogala, Drosopoulos & Trilar, 2009 c g
- Cicadetta kollari Fieber, 1876 c g
- Cicadetta konoi (Kato, 1937) c g
- Cicadetta laevifrons (Stal, 1870) c g
- Cicadetta limitata (Walker, F., 1852) c g
- Cicadetta macedonica Schedl, 1999 c g
- Cicadetta mediterranea Fieber, 1876 c g
- Cicadetta minuta (Ollenbach, 1929) c g
- Cicadetta montana (Scopoli, 1772) c g
- Cicadetta nigropilosa Logvinenko, 1976 c g
- Cicadetta olympica Gogala, Drosopoulos & Trilar, 2009 c g
- Cicadetta pellosoma (Uhler, 1861) c g
- Cicadetta petrophila Popov, Arnov & Sergeeva, 1985 c g
- Cicadetta petryi Schumacher, 1924 c g
- Cicadetta pieli (Kato, 1940) c g
- Cicadetta pilosa Horváth, 1901 c g
- Cicadetta podolica (Eichwald, 1830) c g
- Cicadetta ramosi Sanborn, 2009 i
- Cicadetta sarasini (Distant, 1914)
- Cicadetta shansiensis (Esaki & Ishihara, 1950) c g
- Cicadetta sibilatrix (Horvath, 1901)
- Cicadetta sibillae Hertach & Trilar, 2015 c g
- Cicadetta surinamensis Kirkaldy, 1909 i c g
- Cicadetta texana (Davis, 1936) i b
- Cicadetta transylvanica Fieber, 1876 c g
- Cicadetta tumidifrons Horváth, 1911 c g
- Cicadetta tunisiaca (Karsch, 1890) c g
- Cicadetta turcica (Schedl, 2001)
- Cicadetta ventricosa (Stal, 1866) c g
- Cicadetta viridicincta (Ashton, 1912) c g
- Cicadetta walkerella Kirkaldy, 1909 c g
- Cicadetta yamashitai (Esaki & Ishihara, 1950)
Data sources: i = ITIS,[3] c = Catalogue of Life,[4] g = GBIF,[5] b = Bugguide.net[6]
References
- http://www.cicadamania.com/downloads/diversity-05-00166.pdf
- Marshall, D. C., and Hill, K. B. R. 2017. A new genus for North American Cicadetta species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Zootaxa 4306(4): 537-550. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4306.4.5
- "Cicadetta Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- "Browse Cicadetta". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- "Cicadetta". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- "Cicadetta Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- 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.
