Lyristes plebejus (Scopoli, 1763)

Trilar, T., Gogala, M., Graziani, F., Ceccolini, F. & Cianferoni, F., 2020, First data on Cicadas of Kefalonia, Greece (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), including bioacoustics, Russian Entomological Journal 29 (1), pp. 12-19 : 13

Lyristes plebejus (Scopoli, 1763)

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MATERIAL EXAMINED. Assos, Assos Fortress , 38.382833° N 20.533983° E (un. = 10 m), 142 m, 8.VIII.2016, song heard, photographed, T. Trilar, K. Prosenc Trilar; Lixouri , 38.198567° N 20.438733° E (un. = 10 m), 5 m, 9.VIII.2016, song heard, T. Trilar, K. Prosenc Trilar; Petani , 38.2612° N 20.3780° E (un. = 5 m), 10 m, 25.VII.2018, photographed, F. Graziani .

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION. It occurs in the southwestern part of Europe, in Portugal and Spain and extends its distribution range to northern and eastern Mediterranean [ Nast, 1972; Boulard, 1995a, b; Gogala, 1998, 2002]; L. plebejus was recorded also for SE Azerbaijan [ Tishechkin, 2003] but Simões and Quartau [2013] and Gogala and Trilar [2014] stated that from east Aegean L. plebejus is replaced by the related L. gemellus Boulard, 1988 . Further research it is therefore necessary to shed light on the exact distribution of these two species (cf. also with the range of L. plebejus provided by Kudryashova [1979]).

REMARKS. The species occurs mainly in closed high shrubland and woodland on different plants, like olive trees, pine trees, oaks, as well as on fruit trees [ Sueur et al., 2004; Drosopoulos et al., 2005; Simões et al., 2013].

Figures

Figs 2–3. Lyristes plebejus: 2 — spectrogram of the calling song, showing one phrase; 3 — oscillogram of the enlarged section B of the calling song, showing the end of one phrase and the beginning of another. Рис. 2–3. Lyristes plebejus: 2 — сонограмма приЗывного сигнала, покаЗана одна фраЗа; 3 — осциллограмма части приЗывного сигнала (увеличенный сектор B сонограммы), покаЗываюЩаЯ конец одной фраЗы и начало следуюЩей.