Successful identification of the final instar nymph of Quintilia carinata (Thunberg)(Hemiptera: Cicadidae) by DNA extraction from the exuvium
- Authors: Bouwer, Nicolette , Midgley, John M , Timm, Alicia E , Villet, Martin H
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/442347 , vital:73977 , https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2013.836759
- Description: Despite being taxonomically and phylogenetically informative, the morphology of the immature stages of cicadas has received comparatively superficial attention. One reason for this is the difficulty of positively identifying immature stages, particularly as these stages are fossorial. We present a method for identifying cicada exuviae using DNA sequence data and describe a set of characters and character states for the final instar nymph of Quintilia carinata (Thunberg). The identification of immature stages using molecular methods will increase our knowledge of African cicadas, allowing for the initiation of future phylogenetic and ecological comparisons.
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- Date Issued: 2014
The final instar exuvium of Pycna semiclara Germar, 1834 (Hemiptera Cicadidae)
- Authors: Midgley, John M , Bouwer, Nicolette , Villet, Martin H
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/440695 , vital:73804 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC136752
- Description: Exuviae of the cicada Pycna semiclara were found next to freshly eclosed adults. The exuvium of Pycna Semiclara is described and illustrated for the first time and a key is presented to distinguish the exuvium of this species from those of Platypleura stridula and Platypleura capensis, the only other species of cicadas from southern Africa for which exuviae have been described.
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- Date Issued: 2013