Zammara

Short description: Genus of true bugs

Zammara

Zammara smaragdula
Scientific classification
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Animalia

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Arthropoda

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Insecta

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Hemiptera

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Cicadidae

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Tibiceninae

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Zammarini

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Zammara

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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