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]

Cicadetta
Cicadetta radiator - National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Cicadidae
Genus:	Cicadetta Kolenati, 1857

Cicadetta calliope

Cicadetta brevipennis

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

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

1. http://www.cicadamania.com/downloads/diversity-05-00166.pdf
2. 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
3. "Cicadetta Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
4. "Browse Cicadetta". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
5. "Cicadetta". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
6. "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.

External links

• NCBI
• eol.org
• Media related to Cicadetta at Wikimedia Commons