Yoyetta

Yoyetta is a genus of cicadas in the family Cicadidae. The genus was erected in 2012 to accommodate nine Australian species previously assigned to the genus Cicadetta.[1]

Yoyetta
Yoyetta robertsonae, Victoria, Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadettinae
Tribe: Cicadettini
Genus: Yoyetta
Moulds, 2012
Yoyetta celis, Victoria, Australia

There are currently more than 20 described species in Yoyetta, all found in Australia.[1][2][3]

Species

These species belong to the genus Yoyetta:

  • Yoyetta aaede (F.Walker, 1850) (adelaide firetail)
  • Yoyetta abdominalis (Distant, 1892) (golden-haired firetail)
  • Yoyetta celis (Moulds, 1988) (silver princess)
  • Yoyetta cumberlandi Emery, Emery & Popple, 2015 (Cumberland ambertail)
  • Yoyetta denisoni (Distant, 1893) (black firetail)
  • Yoyetta electrica Emery, Emery & Popple, 2019
  • Yoyetta fluviatilis Emery, Emery & Popple, 2015 (River ambertail)
  • Yoyetta grandis Emery, Emery & Popple, 2019 (red-eyed firetail)
  • Yoyetta humphreyae (varied ambertail)
  • Yoyetta hunterorum (Moulds, 1988) (sydney treetop ticker)
  • Yoyetta incepta (F.Walker, 1850)
  • Yoyetta kershawi (victorian firetail)
  • Yoyetta landsboroughi (Distant, 1882) (small bassian ambertail)
  • Yoyetta nigrimontana Emery, Emery & Popple, 2015
  • Yoyetta regalis Emery, Emery & Popple, 2019 (Red ringer)
  • Yoyetta repetens Emery, Emery & Popple, 2015 (zipping ambertail)
  • Yoyetta robertsonae Moulds, Popple & Emery, 2020[4] (clicking ambertail)
  • Yoyetta serrata Emery, Emery & Popple, 2019 (serrated firetail)
  • Yoyetta spectabilis Emery, Emery & Popple, 2019 (wavering firetail)
  • Yoyetta subalpina Emery, Emery & Popple, 2019 (subalpine firetail)
  • Yoyetta timothyi Emery, Emery & Popple, 2019 (Brown firetail)
  • Yoyetta toowoombae (Distant, 1915)
  • Yoyetta tristrigata (Goding & Froggatt, 1904)
  • Yoyetta verrens Emery, Emery & Popple, 2019

References

  1. Emery, David L.; Emery, Nathan J.; Popple, Lindsay W. (2019). "A Revision of the Yoyetta abdominalis (Distant) Species Group of Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae), Introducing Eight New Species". Records of the Australian Museum. The Australian Museum. 71 (7). doi:10.3853/j.2201-4349.71.2019.172.
  2. Popple, L. W. "The Cicadas of Australia". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  3. "Yoyetta". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  4. Moulds, Maxwell Sydney; Popple, Lindsay W.; Emery, David L. (2020-03-01). "A new species of Yoyetta Moulds from south-eastern Australia with notes on relationships within the Yoyetta tristrigata species group (Hemiptera, Cicadidae, Cicadettini)". Australian Entomologist. 47 (1): 25–38.

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