Zammara (from Amyot CJB, Audinet-Serville, JG (1843) Homoptères. Homoptera Latr. [In] Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères. Deuxième partie: 455-483. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, 676 pages.) is a genus of cicadas. These species are large cicadas that are generally bright blue-green in color.Goemans, G. The Neotropical cicada genus Zammara (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), untangling the taxonomic knot, using DNA, morphology and song. (Abstract). Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB-4. Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting. Knoxville. November 12, 2012. Like other cicadas, these can produce loud calls; Zammara tympanum, for example, makes a "winding up-like pulsating buzz."Young, A. F. (1981).Notes on the population ecology of cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae) in the Cuesta Angel forest ravine of northeastern Costa Rica. Psyche 88 175-196. Zammara are found in the Neotropics,Allen M. Young especially in equatorial regions, where they live in tropical forest habitat. The genus is characterized by tarsi (the "feet" of the insect) that are divided into 2 segments, or tarsomeres; other genera in the tribe have 3 tarsomeres in each tarsus.Goemans, G. (2010). A historical overview of the classification of the Neotropical tribe Zammarini (Hemiptera, Cicadidae) with a key to genera. ZooKeys 43 1-13.
There are about 15Maccagnan, D. H. B., et al. (2011). Zammara smaragdula Walker, 1858 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae): First record for Brazil. CheckList 7(4) 563-64. or 16 species in the genus.Sanborn, A. F. (2004). Two new Zammara species from South America (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Cicadidae). The Florida Entomologist 87(3) 365-71.
Species include: Zammara brevis Zammara calochroma Zammara erna Zammara eximia Zammara hertha Zammara intricata Zammara lichyi Zammara luculenta Zammara medialinea Zammara nigriplaga Zammara olivacea Zammara smaragdina Zammara smaragdula Zammara strepens Zammara tympanum
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