Beetle cicadas
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Beetle leafhopper ( Issus coleoptratus ) |
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| Spinola , 1839 |
The beetle cicadas (Issidae) are a species-rich family of pointed head cicadas (Fulgoromorpha) with around 1500 species worldwide , which is particularly widespread in the arid tropical and subtropical regions . 150 species in 30 genera are known from Europe . Only 2 genera with 3 species occur in Germany. Most species have a beetle-like shape. A revision of the division of the Issidae into tribes and genera is in preparation.
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Systematics
The beetle cicada family currently comprises two subfamilies - Hemisphaeriinae and Issinae. Only representatives of the Issinae occur in Europe.
Central European species
There are currently 7 genera with 13 species in Central Europe:
- True beetle cicada Issus coleoptratus ( Fabricius , 1781)
- Fly-beetle cicada Issus muscaeformis ( Closet , 1781)
- Issus lauri Ahrens , 1814
- Issus truncatus fever , 1876
- Latissus dilatatus ( Fourcroy , 1785)
- Mycterodus confusus Stål , 1861
- Nasal cicada Mycterodus cuniceps Melichar , 1906
- Mycterodus immaculatus ( Fabricius , 1794)
- Mediterranean beetle leafhopper Agalmatium bilobum ( Fever , 1877)
- Yellow beetle leafhopper Agalmatium flavescens ( Olivier , 1791)
- Falcidius apterus ( Fabricius , 1794)
- Small beetle cicada Hysteropterum reticulatum Herrich-Schäffer , 1835
- Collared beetle cicada Kervillea conspurcata ( Spinola , 1839)
Individual evidence
- ^ Issidae in Fauna Europaea. Retrieved February 25, 2015
- ↑ Malcolm Burrows, Gregory Sutton: Interacting Gears Synchronize Propulsive Leg Movements in a Jumping Insect. In: Science . Volume 341, No. 6151, 2013, pp. 1254–1256, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1240284 .
- ^ WE Holzinger: Provisional directory of the cicadas of Central Europe (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha et Cicadomorpha); Preliminary checklist of the Auchenorrhyncha (leafhoppers, planthoppers, froghoppers, treehoppers, cicadas) of Central Europe. Status 2003 ( [1] ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF; 122 kB), accessed on May 8th 2007
literature
- WE Holzinger, I. Kammerlander, H. Nickel: The Auchenorrhyncha of Central Europe - Die Zikaden Mitteleuropas. Volume 1: Fulgoromorpha, Cicadomorpha excl. Cicadellidae. Brill, Leiden 2003, ISBN 90-04-12895-6 .
