Cicadatra atra (Olivier,1790)

Hertach, Thomas & Nagel, Peter, 2013, Cicadas in Switzerland: ascientific overview of the historic and current knowledge of apopular taxon (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), Revue suisse de Zoologie 120 (2), pp. 229-269 : 257

Cicadatra atra (Olivier,1790)

Bremi (1849) named the most frequent Swiss species “ Cicada concinna ”, which, according to this description, must be assigned to Cicadetta montana s. l. Some authors classify Cicada concinna Germar,1821 as asynonym of Cicadatra atra (e.g. Hagen, 1855; Fieber,1876; Metcalf, 1963). Bremi was therefore probably misinterpreted as his record of “ Cicada concinna ”seems to have lead several authors to the conclusion that C. atra is aSwiss species: Haupt [1935, “reaching the southern parts of Switzerland (Valais)”], Robert (1937, “more abundant than C. orni , L. plebejus and T.haematodes in Central Europe”), Metcalf (1963), Nast (1972, 1987), Schedl (2000, “southern Switzerland ”, the symbol in the corresponding distribution map is located in the Valais), Holzinger et al. (2003) and Hoch (2011). Neither historic nor recent evidence could be found in collections or in the field. It is rather unlikely that C. atra has occurred in Switzerland. The nearest recent observations are situated in the Mediterranean parts of France ( Puissant, 2006) and in the most northern Apennine Mountains (pers. data). Servadei (1967) did not mention of Italian records north of the Emilia Romagna.