Zammara
| Zammara | |
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| Zammara sp. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Subfamily: | Tibiceninae |
| Tribe: | Zammarini |
| Genus: | Zammara Amyot and Serville, 1843 |
| Species | |
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Zammara is a genus of cicadas. These species are large cicadas that are generally bright blue-green in color.[1] Like other cicadas, these can produce loud calls; Zammara tympanum, for example, makes a "winding up-like pulsating buzz."[2] Zammara are found in the Neotropics, especially in equatorial regions,[1] where they live in tropical forest habitat.[3] 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.[4]
There are about 15[5] or 16 species in the genus.[3]
Species include:[4]
- 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
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 Sanborn, A. F. (2004). Two new Zammara species from South America (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Cicadidae). The Florida Entomologist 87(3) 365-71.
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ Maccagnan, D. H. B., et al. (2011). Zammara smaragdula Walker, 1858 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae): First record for Brazil. CheckList 7(4) 563-64.
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