Biology:Cicadatra atra
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Short description: Species of true bug
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Genus: | Cicadatra |
| Species: | C. atra
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| Cicadatra atra (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Cicadatra atra, the black cicada, is a species of cicada belonging to the family Cicadidae and the genus Cicadatra.
Distribution
This species is widespread across coastal regions of southern France, Catalonia (Spain), Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Syria, as well as in southern Albania and Bulgaria, mainland Greece, the North Aegean islands, southern coast of Cyprus, southwestern Turkey and its European part.[1][2][3]
Habitat
Cicada atra prefers dry, rocky, or shrubby environments, including grasslands and open woodlands, mountainous slopes with sparse vegetation, as well as in coastal shrublands.[1][2]
Behavior
Males produce loud, rhythmic calls to attract females during summer.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Black Sorrow Cicada (Cicadatra atra)". https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/82825-Cicadatra-atra.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Trilar, T.; Gogala, M.; Graziani, F.; Ceccolini, F.; Cianferoni, F. (March 2020). "First data on Cicadas of Kefalonia, Greece (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), including bioacoustics" (in ru). Russian Entomological Journal 29 (1): 12–19. doi:10.15298/rusentj.29.1.03. ISSN 0132-8069. https://kmkjournals.com/journals/REJ/REJ_Index_Volumes/REJ_29/REJ_29_1_012_019.
- ↑ Mol, Abbas; Zeybekoglu, Unal; Akyurek, Basak (2013-04-25). "Morphological and acoustic characters of Cicadatra platyptera Fieber, 1876" (in en). ZooKeys (296): 1–23. doi:10.3897/zookeys.296.4855. ISSN 1313-2970. PMID 23794875. Bibcode: 2013ZooK..296....1M.
Wikidata ☰ Q50399539 entry
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