Cicadetta calliope calliope (Walker)
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Cicadetta calliope calliope (Walker) View in CoL (Figs. 75, 166–174)
Cicada parvula Say 1825: 333 .
Cicada pallescens, Germar 1830: 44 .
Cicada calliope Walker 1850: 212 . Type locality: Warm Springs, North Carolina (now Hot Springs, Madison County, NC [Sanborn and Heath in preparation]). Holotype male is in the Natural History Museum, London.
The Cicadetta View in CoL species are the first cicadas to become active during the year. They first emerge in early April and can be heard singing until early September. The most common collection dates are in July and August. This is a longer activity period than seen in more northern distributions (e.g. late May to early July in Kansas [ Beamer, 1928]). The species is associated with moist prairie meadows with perennial grasses and weeds in which the females oviposit and is rarely found in trees ( Beamer 1928). A good summary of their biology, including nymphal morphology, can be found in Beamer (1928). No acoustic analysis has been published but the song is expected to be a high frequency call based on our experience with other members of the genus.
Cicadetta calliope calliope View in CoL has a wide distribution in the United States. It is found as far north as Virginia and as far west as Colorado ( Metcalf, 1963c; Kondratieff et al., 2001; Sanborn and Phillips unpublished). It has been reported from the following 19 Florida counties: Alachua, Bay, Charlotte, Duval, Highlands, Jackson, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Marion, Okaloosa, Orange, Palm Beach, Putnam, St. John’s, Santa Rosa, Sarasota, Seminole, and Suwannee. The species inhabits the Southeastern Plain and Southern Coastal Plains ecoregions with one record from the Miami Ridge/Atlantic Coastal Strip of the Southern Florida Coastal Plains ecoregion. The distribution of C. c. calliope View in CoL (Fig. 75) overlaps significantly with the subspecies C. c. floridensis View in CoL . The species and subspecies are separated primarily based on the coloration patterns of the males. The significant overlap in the distributions suggests that the validity of the subspecies needs further investigation.
Beamer, R. L. (1928) Studies on the biology of Kansas Cicadidae. The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 18, 155 - 263.
Germar, E. R. (1830) Species Cicadarium enumeratae et sub genera distributae. Thon's Entomologichen Archives, 2, 37 - 57.
Kondratieff, B. C., Ellington, A., & Leatherman, D. A. (2001) The cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae, Tibicinidae) of Colorado. Contributions of the C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity. Insects of Western North America 2, 81 pp.
Metcalf, Z. P. (1963 c) General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 2. Tibicinidae. North Carolina State College Contribution, 1564, 1 - 492.
Say, T. (1825) Descriptions of new Hemipterous insects collected in the expedition to the Rocky Mountains, performed by order of Mr. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under command of Major Long. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 4, 307 - 345.
Walker, F. (1850) List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, British Museum Trustees, London, 1, 1 - 260.
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Cicadoidea |
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Cicadettinae |
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Cicadettini |
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Cicadetta calliope calliope (Walker)
Sanborn, Allen F., Phillips, Polly K. & Gilllis, Philip 2008 |
Cicada calliope
Walker 1850: 212 |
Cicada pallescens
Germar 1830: 44 |
Cicada parvula
Say 1825: 333 |
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