Cicadatra atra :: European Cicadas

Cicadatra atra (Olivier, 1790)


Cicadatra atra continuous song (very long echemes)


Cicadatra atra calling song with short echemes


C. atra short echemes with wingclicks (courtship)

Photo M. Gogala - Strunjan, Slovenia
Photo M. Gogala - Strunjan, Slovenia
<em>C. atra</em> - male. Toscana, Italia, photo T. Hertach
<em>Cicadatra atra</em>, copula - France. Photo S. Puissant
<em>Cicadatra atra</em>, yellow form "sufflava", male singing - France. Photo S. Puissant

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Boulard M., 1995. Postures de cymbalisation, cymbalisations et cartes d’identité acoustique des cigales. 1.- Généralités et espèces méditerranéenes (Homoptera Cicadoidea). EPHE Biol. Evol. Insectes 7/8: 1-72.PDF

Gogala M., Trilar T., 2003. Video analysis of wing clicking in cicadas of the genera Cicadatra and Pagiphora (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadoidea). Acta entomologica slovenica 11(1): 5-15. PDF

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Gogala M., Trilar T., Krpach V.T., 2005. Fauna of singing cicadas (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadoidea) of Macedonia - a bioacoustic survey. Acta entomologica slovenica, 13 (2): 103-126. PDF

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espèces et données éco-éthologiques. Rapport WWF, Marseille PDF

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