Cicadatra atra

Cicadatra atra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Cicadidae
Genus: Cicadatra
Species:
C. atra
Binomial name
Cicadatra atra
Subspecies
  • Cicadatra atra atra
  • Cicadatra atra aquilla
Synonyms
  • Cicada atra Linnaeus, 1758

Cicadatra atra, the black cicada, is a species of cicada belonging to the family Cicadidae and the genus Cicadatra.

Distribution

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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. ^ a b "Black Sorrow Cicada (Cicadatra atra)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
  2. ^ a b Trilar, T.; Gogala, M.; Graziani, F.; Ceccolini, F.; Cianferoni, F. (March 2020). "First data on Cicadas of Kefalonia, Greece (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), including bioacoustics". Russian Entomological Journal (in Russian). 29 (1): 12–19. doi:10.15298/rusentj.29.1.03. ISSN 0132-8069.
  3. ^ Mol, Abbas; Zeybekoglu, Unal; Akyurek, Basak (25 April 2013). "Morphological and acoustic characters of Cicadatra platyptera Fieber, 1876". ZooKeys (296): 1–23. Bibcode:2013ZooK..296....1M. doi:10.3897/zookeys.296.4855. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 3689109. PMID 23794875.

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