ANALYSIS OF SONGS OF SOME AUSTRALIAN CICADAS (HOMOPTERA: CICADIDAE)

Song discrimination by male cicadas Cicada barbara lusitanica (Homoptera, Cicadidae).

Cicada barbara lusitanica males presented a stereotyped singing response behaviour when exposed to a playback of the conspecific song. Males preferred (as measured by the time taken to sing) the conspecific signal to heterospecific songs that differed markedly in temporal pattern. Manipulation of the gross temporal pattern of C. barbara calling song significantly reduced stimulus attractiveness...

Deposition and decomposition of periodical cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae: Magicicada) in woodland aquatic ecosystems

Many freshwater ecosystems receive allochthonous resource subsidies from adjacent terrestrial environments. In eastern North American forests, geographic broods of periodical cicadas emerge every 13 to 17 y to breed, and local abundances can sometimes be .300 individuals/m. Most individuals avoid predation, senesce after breeding, and become a resource pulse for forest ecosystems; some cicada c...

Studies on the Acoustical Behavior of Seventeen-Year Cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae: Magicicada)

Influence of Multiple Factors on Insect Colonization of Heterogeneous Landscapes: A Review and Case Study with Periodical Cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae)

The literature on herbivorous insects in heterogeneous habitats has addressed insect population responses to patch size, distance from source populations, habitat edges, and variation in host stemdensity. Studies typically conclude that insect colonists respondpositively to the area of host plant patches, but there is little consensus on how insects respond to variation in host density at the p...

On cicadas of Hyalessa maculaticollis complex (Hemiptera, Cicadidae) of China

The genus Hyalessa China is reviewed based on the discovery of male of the type species H. ronshana China as well as the description of one new species (H. batangensis sp. n.). The species formerly included in the genus Sonata Lee are removed to Hyalessa as new combinations. Intraspecific variations of H. maculaticollis are enumerated based on materials collected from various locations from Chi...