Cicadetta
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| Cicadetta radiator - National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Tribe: | Cicadettini |
| Genus: | Cicadetta Kolenati, 1857 |
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Cicadetta is a genus of generally small-bodied annual cicadas widespread across portions of the Palearctic, Indomalayan, North African and Australian realms.[1][2] 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 (2017) transferred to the genus Cicadettana.[3]
Distribution and conservation status
[edit]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. In addition, species have been recorded from North Africa, Asia and Australia.[1]
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. Cicadetta montana, the type species, is the only cicada to occur in the British Isles and parts of Scandinavia; however, it is more common in warmer areas of mainland Europe, where it is one of a species complex.[4]
Species
[edit]The genus Cicadetta includes:[1][5][6][7][8][9]
- Cicadetta abscondita Lee, 2008
- Cicadetta afghanistanica Dlabola, 1964
- Cicadetta albipennis Fieber, 1876
- Cicadetta anapaistica Hertach, 2011
- Cicadetta brevipennis Fieber, 1876
- Cicadetta cantilatrix Sueur & Puissant, 2007
- Cicadetta cerdaniensis Puissant & Boulard, 2000
- Cicadetta chaharensis (Kato, 1938)
- Cicadetta concinna (Germar, 1821)
(synonym C. podolica (Eichwald, 1830)) - Cicadetta diminuta Horváth, 1907
- Cicadetta dirfica Gogala, Trilar & Drosopoulos, 2011
- Cicadetta fangoana Boulard, 1976
- Cicadetta fraseri (China, 1938)
- Cicadetta haematophleps Fieber, 1876
- Cicadetta hageni Fieber, 1872
- Cicadetta hannekeae Gogala, Drosopoulos & Trilar, 2008
- Cicadetta hodoharai (Kato, 1940)
- Cicadetta inglisi (Ollenbach, 1929)
- Cicadetta inserta Horváth, 1911
- Cicadetta intermedia (Ollenbach, 1929)
- Cicadetta juncta (Walker, 1850)
- Cicadetta kissavi Gogala, Drosopoulos & Trilar, 2009
- Cicadetta kollari Fieber, 1876
- Cicadetta konoi (Kato, 1937)
- Cicadetta laevifrons (Stål, 1870)
- Cicadetta macedonica Schedl, 1999
- Cicadetta mediterranea Fieber, 1876
- Cicadetta minuta (Ollenbach, 1929)
- Cicadetta montana (Scopoli, 1772)
- type species - Cicadetta nigropilosa Logvinenko, 1976
- Cicadetta olympica Gogala, Drosopoulos & Trilar, 2009
- Cicadetta pellosoma (Uhler, 1861)
- Cicadetta petrophila Popov, Arnov & Sergeeva, 1985
- Cicadetta petryi Schumacher, 1924
- Cicadetta pieli (Kato, 1940)
- Cicadetta pilosa Horváth, 1901
- Cicadetta shansiensis (Esaki & Ishihara, 1950)
- Cicadetta sibillae Hertach & Trilar, 2015
- Cicadetta transylvanica Fieber, 1876
- Cicadetta tumidifrons Horváth, 1911
- Cicadetta tunisiaca (Karsch, 1890)
- Cicadetta ventricosa (Stål, 1866)
- Cicadetta viridicincta (Ashton, 1912)
- Cicadetta walkerella Kirkaldy, 1909
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus Cicadetta Kolenati, 1857 (retrieved 24 May 2025)
- ^ Sanborn, Allen; Phillips, Polly (9 April 2013). "Biogeography of the Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, North of Mexico". Diversity. 5 (2): 166–239. doi:10.3390/d5020166. ISSN 1424-2818.
- ^ Marshall, David C.; Hill, Kathy B. R. (2017). "A new genus for North American Cicadetta species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae)". Zootaxa. 4306 (4): 537–550. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4306.4.5. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ "Present status of mountain cicadas Cicadetta montana (sensu lato) in Europe" Archived 2015-01-11 at the Wayback Machine - Matija Gogala, Sakis Drosopoulos, Tomi Trilar (Bulletin of Insectology 61 (1): 123-124, 2008)ISSN 1721-8861
- ^ "Cicadetta". GBIF. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "Cicadetta Kolenati, 1857". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "Cicadetta genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ Popple, L. W. "The Cicadas of Australia". Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- ^ Marshall, David C.; Moulds, Max; Hill, Kathy B. R.; Price, Benjamin W.; et al. (2018). "A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification". Zootaxa. 4424 (1): 1–64. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4424.1.1. PMID 30313477. S2CID 52976455.
- 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, pp. 320–351, doi:10.1111/zoj.12212.
External links
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