Cicadetta Petryi

''Cicadetta'' is a genus of generally small-bodied annual cicadas widespread across portions of the Palearctic, Indomalayan realm, Indomalayan, North African and Australian biogeographic realm, realms.World Auchenorrhyncha Database: genus ''Cicadetta'' Kolenati, 1857
(retrieved 24 May 2025) In older scientific and taxonomy (biology), 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 Meadow, weedy meadows and tallgrass prairie ecosystems. Several related species from North America were recently (2017) transferred to the genus ''Cicadettana''.

Distribution and conservation status

Many members of the genus inhabit Southern Europe, Greece, Anatolia, and Mediterranean Basin, coastal Mediterranean regions, and they have a Cicada (mythology), long history of association with the civilizations of those areas; revered by many cultures for their complex, loud, and sometimes melodic Animal communication, courtship calls. In addition, species have been recorded from North Africa, Asia and Australia.

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."Present status of mountain cicadas Cicadetta montana (sensu lato) in Europe"
- Matija Gogala, Sakis Drosopoulos, Tomi Trilar (''Bulletin of Insectology'' 61 (1): 123-124, 2008)

Species

The genus ''Cicadetta'' includes:

# ''Cicadetta abscondita''
# ''Cicadetta afghanistanica''
# ''Cicadetta albipennis''
# ''Cicadetta anapaistica''
# ''Cicadetta brevipennis''
# ''Cicadetta cantilatrix''
# ''Cicadetta cerdaniensis''
# ''Cicadetta chaharensis''
# ''Cicadetta concinna''
(synonym ''C. podolica'' )
# ''Cicadetta diminuta''
# ''Cicadetta dirfica''
# ''Cicadetta fangoana''
# ''Cicadetta fraseri''
# ''Cicadetta haematophleps''
# ''Cicadetta hageni''
# ''Cicadetta hannekeae''
# ''Cicadetta hodoharai''
# ''Cicadetta inglisi''
# ''Cicadetta inserta''
# ''Cicadetta intermedia''
# ''Cicadetta juncta''
# ''Cicadetta kissavi''
# ''Cicadetta kollari''
# ''Cicadetta konoi''
# ''Cicadetta laevifrons''
# ''Cicadetta macedonica''
# ''Cicadetta mediterranea''
# ''Cicadetta minuta''
# ''Cicadetta montana''
- type species
# ''Cicadetta nigropilosa''
# ''Cicadetta olympica''
# ''Cicadetta pellosoma''
# ''Cicadetta petrophila''
# ''Cicadetta petryi''
# ''Cicadetta pieli''
# ''Cicadetta pilosa''
# ''Cicadetta shansiensis''
# ''Cicadetta sibillae''
# ''Cicadetta transylvanica''
# ''Cicadetta tumidifrons''
# ''Cicadetta tunisiaca''
# ''Cicadetta ventricosa''
# ''Cicadetta viridicincta''
# ''Cicadetta walkerella''

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: .
* 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.
*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, .

External links

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Hemiptera of Asia
Hemiptera of Europe
Hemiptera of Australia
Taxa named by Friedrich August Rudolph Kolenati
Cicadettini
Cicadidae genera