Morphological and acoustic characters of Cicadatra platyptera Fieber, 1876

By

Mol, Abbas
Zeybekoglu, Ünal
Akyurek, Basak

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2013

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

296

Pages

1-23

Subjects

ACOUSTICS , Cicadatra platyptera , Cicadatraatra , Cicadidae , Hemiptera , Morphology , Turkey

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.296.4855

 

Abstract

Acoustic and morphological characters are very important to distinguish species of Cicadidae. In this study, the morphological and acoustic characters of Cicadatra platyptera Fieber, 1876 (Hemiptera, Cicadidae) collected from Turkey were analysed. The external morphological structures of two species were drawn and photographs of some specimens were taken. We evaluated taxonomically important morphological characters such as body shape, colors, patterns, structure, and genital structure. We evaluated measurements of external morphological structures and acoustics characters of C. platyptera from Turkey, partly with statistical analyses. Morphological characters were compared and differentiated from the closely related species, C. atra. The distribution in Turkey including previous records and the material examined were shown on a map, and the distribution in Palearctic Region was given.