''Zammara'' (from
[Amyot CJB, Audinet-Serville, JG (1843) Homoptères. Homoptera Latr. n''Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Deuxième partie'': 455-483. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, 676 pages.]) is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
cicada
The cicadas () are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, along with smaller jumping bugs such as leafhoppers and froghoppers. The superfamily is divided into two ...
s. These species are large cicadas that are generally bright blue-green in color.
[Goemans, G]
The Neotropical cicada genus ''Zammara'' (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), untangling the taxonomic knot, using DNA, morphology and song. (Abstract).
Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB-4. Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting. Knoxville. November 12, 2012. Like other cicadas, these can produce loud calls; ''
Zammara tympanum'', for example, makes a "winding up-like pulsating buzz."
[Young, A. F. (1981]
Notes on the population ecology of cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae) in the Cuesta Angel forest ravine of northeastern Costa Rica.
''Psyche'' 88 175-196. ''Zammara'' are found in the
Neotropics
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In biogeog ...
,
[Allen M. Young ] especially in
equator
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ial regions,
[ where they live in ]tropical forest
Tropical forests are forested ecoregions with tropical climates – that is, land areas approximately bounded by the Tropic of Cancer, tropics of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Capricorn, but possibly affected by other factors such as prevailing ...
habitat.[ The genus is characterized by tarsi (the "feet" of the insect) that are divided into 2 segments, or tarsomeres; other genera in the tribe have 3 tarsomeres in each tarsus.][Goemans, G. (2010)]
A historical overview of the classification of the Neotropical tribe Zammarini (Hemiptera, Cicadidae) with a key to genera.
''ZooKeys'' 43 1-13.
There are about 15[Maccagnan, D. H. B., et al. (2011)]
''Zammara smaragdula'' Walker, 1858 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae): First record for Brazil.
''CheckList'' 7(4) 563-64. or 16 species in the genus.[Sanborn, A. F. (2004)]
Two new ''Zammara'' species from South America (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Cicadidae).
''The Florida Entomologist'' 87(3) 365-71.
Species include:[
*'' Zammara brevis''
*'' Zammara calochroma''
*'' Zammara erna''
*'' Zammara eximia''
*'' Zammara hertha''
*'' Zammara intricata''
*'' Zammara lichyi''
*'' Zammara luculenta''
*'' Zammara medialinea''
*'' Zammara nigriplaga''
*'' Zammara olivacea''
*'' Zammara smaragdina''
*'' Zammara smaragdula''
*'' Zammara strepens''
*'' Zammara tympanum''
]
References
Zammarini
Cicadidae genera
Hemiptera of South America
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