| 题名 | A new genus for North American Cicadetta species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) | | 链接 | http://mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4306.4.5 |
A new genus for North American Cicadetta species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae)
DAVID C. MARSHALL, KATHY B. R. HILL
Abstract
The generic classification of cicadas within the globally distributed tribe Cicadettini (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) has been challenging due to their often conservative morphology. A recent molecular analysis has indicated that the six North American taxa currently classified in Cicadetta are unrelated to the European type species of Cicadetta, C. montana Scopoli. Here we identify a set of diagnostic morphological characters for a new genus, which we distinguish from its closest relatives in Eurasia and Australasia. |