A hotspot for Mediterranean cicadas (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadidae): new genera, species and songs from southern Spain

Puissant, Stéphane; Sueur, Jérôme

doi:10.1080/14772000.2010.532832

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“…In the European context, it is an area of high environmental heterogeneity and singularity. It includes a high diversity of bioclimatic stages, orography, lithology and geology and consequently supports a wide range of ecosystems (Calvo-Sendín et al 2000;Esteve-Selma et al 2003;Millán et al 2006), that could explain the high biodiversity values (Abellán et al 2005; Achurra and Rodríguez 2008; Mendoza-Fernández Puissant and Sueur 2010). This region is characterised by a climatic and topographic gradient (NW-SE), from the high (2,000 m), wet (600 mm of mean annual precipitation) and cold (12°C of mean annual temperature) northwest to the low (0 m), dry (220 mm) and hot (20°C) southeast.…”

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Assessing the quality and usefulness of different taxonomic groups inventories in a semiarid Mediterranean region

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Extensive biological databases are valuables ecological research tools that form the basis of biodiversity studies. However, it is essential to perform an assessment of the inventories' completeness for their use in ecological and conservational research, and this is especially true for non-emblematic groups. Using four exhaustive databases compiled for four taxonomic groups (aquatic beetles, aquatic bugs, bryophytes and orchids), in a semiarid Mediterranean region, the aim of this study was to estimate the degree of completeness for the inventory of each taxa and to identify those spatial units that could be considered to be sufficiently-surveyed (UTM 10 9 10 km squares). Then, the degree of environmental representativeness of the databases was assessed, as well as those factors that could have caused biased sampling efforts. Lastly, the usefulness of each database for conservational purposes was discussed. The results of the present study highlighted the lack of complete and extensive inventory data; as the best sampled group did not even reach 25% of sufficiently-surveyed squares in the territory (in the case of aquatic bugs) and none of the squares presented reliable inventories in the case of bryophytes. Although these results suggested that recording was skewed by relatively simple climatic variables, the sufficiently-surveyed squares were evenly distributed across physioclimatic subregions, what enables their use in further ecological studies. The authors would like to emphasise the potential of these procedures to locate areas in need of further sampling as well as to aid in the design of more effective regional conservation schemes.Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (

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Assessing the quality and usefulness of different taxonomic groups inventories in a semiarid Mediterranean region

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“…In particular, passive acoustic monitoring (PAM), where sounds from the surrounding environment are simply recorded, is an unintrusive technique and has been used to study a wide range of animals, including species of fish, marine mammals, birds, primates, insects, and amphibians (e.g., Luczkovich et al, 2008;Celis-Murillo et al, 2009;Hu et al, 2009;Burton and Nietsch, 2010;Puissant and Sueur, 2010;Van Opzeeland et al, 2010). PAM has the potential to overcome some of the limitations of visual surveys, provided that the species of interest makes a sound that can be used as a cue to indicate that an individual is present.…”

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Description and seasonal detection of two potential whale calls recorded in the Indian Ocean

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Harris

2015

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Unidentified acoustic signals are recorded by hydrophones placed in the world's oceans. Some of these sounds are suspected to originate from marine mammals. In this study, two acoustic signals recorded by two arrays at Diego Garcia in the northern Indian Ocean are described. Data were available between January 2002 and December 2003. Signals were detected manually using long-term spectral average plots. Time and frequency measurements were taken from a sample of both signals. The first unidentified signal [Diego Garcia Downsweep (DGD)] consisted of two main components. The mean frequency range of the entire signal was 19.3-45.0 Hz, with a mean duration of 36.5 s (n ¼ 22). Detections of DGD at the northern array peaked in the austral summer, though detections at the southern array peaked during winter and spring. The second unidentified signal [Diego Garcia Croak (DGC)] consisted of one component with a mean frequency range of 16.9-49.6 Hz. The mean duration of the signal was 13.1 s (n ¼ 10). Detections of DGC did not follow a clear seasonal pattern. These signals followed characteristics of biological sources, suggesting that they could be whale calls. Fin whale calls and possible blue whales D-calls were also identified in the data.

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“…However, the different structure of genitalia (form of the median lobe of uncus, no inner tooth on the basal lobe of pygofer), characters in the venation of the wings (M and CuA veins fused at the basal cell, hind wings with 6 cells) and the unique song pattern make it clear, that this species does not belong to any of the genera Cicadetta, Cicadivetta or Tettigetta J. Sueur and S. Puissant (pers. comm., see also Puissant & Sueur 2010).…”

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Two new species and a new genus of Cicadettini (Hemiptera, Cicadidae) from the Greek island of Evia

2011

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In the mountains on the island of Evia (Euboea, Euboia), Mt. Dirfis, Mt. Kandilio and Mt. Ochi, we discovered two new species of Cicadettini. One species, Cicadetta dirfica sp. n. was found on the southern slopes of Mt. Dirfis and Euboeana gen. n. castaneivaga sp. n. at the same locality, on Mt. Kandilio in the NW and on Mt. Ochi in the southern part of the island. Cicadetta dirfica is morphologically very similar to other species of the C. montana species complex, but has a different and characteristic sound pattern. However, E. castaneivaga sp. n. has some different morphological characteristics and a very unusual sound pattern for this group of species. (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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A hotspot for Mediterranean cicadas (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadidae): new genera, species and songs from southern Spain

Cited by 34 publications

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Assessing the quality and usefulness of different taxonomic groups inventories in a semiarid Mediterranean region

Assessing the quality and usefulness of different taxonomic groups inventories in a semiarid Mediterranean region

Description and seasonal detection of two potential whale calls recorded in the Indian Ocean

Two new species and a new genus of Cicadettini (Hemiptera, Cicadidae) from the Greek island of Evia

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