Distribution of cicadas of the genus Lyristes (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) in the eastern Mediterranean area
| Autor: | P. C. Simões, Jose Alberto Quartau |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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biology
Ecology business.industry CYCLADES Distribution (economics) Cell Biology Plant Science biology.organism_classification Biochemistry Deep sea Hemiptera Paleontology Geography Genus Genetics Plebejus Biological dispersal Animal Science and Zoology Mainland business Molecular Biology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics |
| Zdroj: | Biologia. 68:961-965 |
| ISSN: | 1336-9563 0006-3088 |
| DOI: | 10.2478/s11756-013-0243-x |
| Popis: | The present study gives an updated overview on the distribution of species of the genus Lyristes Horvath, 1926 in the eastern Mediterranean area. Besides occurring in southern continental Europe, specimens of L. plebejus were also found along the southern Greek mainland and in the western Aegean island of Kithira. Moreover, the new data presented give L. gemellus as a new record for Greece (appearing only along most of the Anatolian coast) as well as for Cyprus. The genus seems to be absent from the Cyclades as well as from the islands of Crete and Karpathos. Therefore, the results revealed a faunal discontinuity between the Greek western and eastern islands in the Aegean Sea. Hence, the persistence of a deep sea barrier between these two groups of islands seems to explain the present distribution of Lyristes species, which is also in accordance with the paleogeography of the area and with the fact that dispersal to more geographically isolated islands might have been virtually impossible for species of this genus. |
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