@article {58168, title = {First data on Cicadas of Kefalonia, Greece (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), including bioacoustics}, year = {2020}, abstract = {

No cicada records for the Greek Ion- ian island of Kefalonia existed so far. The fauna of singing cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Kefalonia island (Cephalonia) has been investigated on the field excursions in 2010, 2016 and 2018 with classic and bioacoustic methods, using recording equipment for sonic range and ultrasonic detectors. We discovered 5 species: Lyristes plebejus (Scopoli, 1763), Cicada orni Linnaeus, 1758, Cicadatra atra (Olivier, 1790), Dimis- salna dimissa (Hagen, 1856), and Tettigettula pygmea (Olivier, 1790).

}, keywords = {bioacoustics, Cicadidae, fauna, Greece, Hemiptera, Kefalonia Island, singing cicadas}, author = {Tomi Trilar and Matija Gogala and Francesca Graziani and Filippo Ceccolini and Fabio Cianferoni} } @article {51466, title = {A revision of the Myopsalta crucifera (Ashton) species group (Hemiptera:~Cicadidae: Cicadettini) with 14 new species from mainland Australia}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4340}, year = {2017}, month = {Feb-10-2019}, pages = {1}, abstract = {

The genus Myopsalta Moulds is distributed throughout much of Australia. Previous studies have associated several undescribed species with the Myopsalta crucifera (Ashton) species complex. The present study informally divides the cicadas in the genus Myopsalta into two species groups. It provides a revision of the M. crucifera species group, which includes redescriptions of M. crucifera s. str. and M. mackinlayi (Distant). The identity of the latter species is further refined and attributed to material formerly presented under the name Myopsalta atrata (Goding \& Froggatt). In addition to the redescriptions, 14 new species belonging to the M. crucifera species group are described, including M. albiventris n. sp., M. bassiana n. sp., M. chrysopedia n. sp., M. gordoni n. sp., M. leona n. sp., M. longicauda n. sp., M. majurae n. sp., M. melanobasis n. sp., M. parvula n. sp., M. platyptera n. sp., M. riverina n. sp., M. septa n. sp., M. umbra n. sp. and M. xerograsidia n. sp. A key to species in the genus Myopsalta is provided. Standard morphological descriptions and descriptions of calling songs unique to each species are included along with a discussion on different song types in the M. crucifera species group.

}, keywords = {acoustic signalling, Auchenorrhyncha, bioacoustics, Hemiptera, identification key, mating signals, song specificity, song structure, systematic taxonomy}, issn = {1175-5326}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4340.1}, url = {https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/issue/view/zootaxa.4340.1}, author = {Lindsay W. Popple} } @article {17275, title = {Morphology, songs and genetics identify two new cicada species from Morocco: Tettigettalna afroamissa sp. nov. and Berberigetta dimelodica gen. nov. \& sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Cicadettini)}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4237}, year = {2017}, month = {Jan-03-2017}, pages = {517}, abstract = {

Morocco has been the subject of very few expeditions on the last century with the objective of studying small cicadas. In the summer of 2014 an expedition was carried out to Morocco to update our knowledge with acoustic recordings and genetic data of these poorly known species. We describe here two new small-sized cicadas that could not be directly assigned to any species of North African cicadas: Tettigettalna afroamissa sp. nov. and Berberigetta dimelodica gen. nov. \& sp. nov. In respect to T. afroamissa it is the first species of the genus to be found outside Europe and we frame this taxon within the evolutionary history of the genus. Acoustic analysis of this species allows us to confidently separate T. afroamissa from its congeners. With B. dimelodica, a small species showing a remarkable calling song characterized by an abrupt frequency modulation, a new genus had to be erected. Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood phylogenetic analyses with DNA-barcode sequences of Cytochrome C Oxidase 1 support the monophyly of both species, their distinctness and revealed genetic structure within B. dimelodica. Alongside the descriptions we also provide GPS coordinates of collection points, distributions and habitat preferences

}, keywords = {Cicada, Hemiptera, Morocco, new genus, new species}, issn = {1175-5326}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4237.310.11646/zootaxa.4237.3.4}, url = {http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/issue/view/zootaxa.4237.3}, author = {Gon{\c c}alo Jo{\~a}o Costa and Vera L. Nunes and Eduardo Marabuto and Raquel Mendes and Telma G. Laurentino and Jos{\'e} Alberto Quartau and PAULO, OCT{\'A}VIO S. and Paula Cristina Sim{\~o}es} }