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Zammara

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Short description: Genus of true bugs

Zammara
Zammara smaragdula
Scientific classification
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Amyot and Serville, 1843
Species

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Zammara (from Hebrew: זַמָּר, romanized: zamár, lit. 'singer'[1]) is a genus of cicadas. These species are large cicadas that are generally bright blue-green in color.[2] Like other cicadas, these can produce loud calls; Zammara tympanum, for example, makes a "winding up-like pulsating buzz."[3] Zammara are found in the Neotropics,[4] especially in equatorial regions,[2] where they live in tropical forest habitat.[5] 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.[6]

There are about 15[7] or 16 species in the genus.[5]

Species include:[6]

  • 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. ↑ Amyot CJB, Audinet-Serville, JG (1843) Homoptères. Homoptera Latr. [In] Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Deuxième partie: 455-483. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, 676 pages.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Allen M. Young Population Biology of Tropical Insects (2012), p. 52, at Google Books
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sanborn, A. F. (2004). Two new Zammara species from South America (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Cicadidae). The Florida Entomologist 87(3) 365-71.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 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.
  7. ↑ 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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