Redescription of three species of the genus Platypleura Amyot and Serville 1843 (Hemiptera Cicadidae)
- Authors: Villet, Martin H
- Date: 1997
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/453827 , vital:75290 , https://doi.org/10.1080/03946975.1997.10539345
- Description: The type material of three platypleurine cicadas described by GERMAR (1834), Platypleura divisa, P. hirtipennis and P. plumosa, have been rediscovered and are redescribed to clarify their identity. Notes on their biology and biogeography are included.
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- Authors: Villet, Martin H
- Date: 1997
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/453827 , vital:75290 , https://doi.org/10.1080/03946975.1997.10539345
- Description: The type material of three platypleurine cicadas described by GERMAR (1834), Platypleura divisa, P. hirtipennis and P. plumosa, have been rediscovered and are redescribed to clarify their identity. Notes on their biology and biogeography are included.
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The cicada genus Stagira Stål 1861 (Homoptera Tibicinidae) systematic revision
- Authors: Villet, Martin H
- Date: 1997
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/453903 , vital:75297 , https://doi.org/10.1080/03946975.1997.10539347
- Description: The cicada genus Stagira Stål 1861 is redescribed and re-vised. S. sanguinea Distant 1920 n. syn. and S. rufi-costata Distant 1920 n. syn. are synonymized with S. seg-mentaria Karsch ! 890, while S. aethlius (Walker 1850) n. stat. and S. acrida (Walker 1850) n. stat. are removed from the synonymy of S. simplex (Germar 1834) and restored to specific status. An additional 32 new species are described and a key is provided to the males of the genus. Stagira is endemic to the eastern tropical transitional area of south-ern Africa, and has occupied a variety of habitats, from xe-ric scrub to grassland savanna to forest. It forms a group with the South African genera Xosopsaltria Kirkaldy 1904, Tettigomyia Amyot and Serville 1843 and Bavea Distant 1905.
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- Authors: Villet, Martin H
- Date: 1997
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/453903 , vital:75297 , https://doi.org/10.1080/03946975.1997.10539347
- Description: The cicada genus Stagira Stål 1861 is redescribed and re-vised. S. sanguinea Distant 1920 n. syn. and S. rufi-costata Distant 1920 n. syn. are synonymized with S. seg-mentaria Karsch ! 890, while S. aethlius (Walker 1850) n. stat. and S. acrida (Walker 1850) n. stat. are removed from the synonymy of S. simplex (Germar 1834) and restored to specific status. An additional 32 new species are described and a key is provided to the males of the genus. Stagira is endemic to the eastern tropical transitional area of south-ern Africa, and has occupied a variety of habitats, from xe-ric scrub to grassland savanna to forest. It forms a group with the South African genera Xosopsaltria Kirkaldy 1904, Tettigomyia Amyot and Serville 1843 and Bavea Distant 1905.
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The honeybees, Apis mellifera Linnaeus (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of woodland savanna of southeastern Africa
- Radloff, Sarah E, Hepburn, H Randall, Villet, Martin H
- Authors: Radloff, Sarah E , Hepburn, H Randall , Villet, Martin H
- Date: 1997
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6829 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012341
- Description: The morphometric characters and sting pheromones of worker honeybees, Apis mellifera Linnaeus, were analysed by multivariate methods to identify discrete populations in the southeastern woodland savanna of Africa. A discrete population in Mozambique is classified as A. m. litorea Smith, a second in Zimbabwe as A. m. scutellata Lepeletier and a third group in southwestern Zambia as A.m. adansonii Latreille. A zone of introgression between the last two subspecies occurs in south-central Zambia and in the Zambezi Valley.
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- Authors: Radloff, Sarah E , Hepburn, H Randall , Villet, Martin H
- Date: 1997
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6829 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012341
- Description: The morphometric characters and sting pheromones of worker honeybees, Apis mellifera Linnaeus, were analysed by multivariate methods to identify discrete populations in the southeastern woodland savanna of Africa. A discrete population in Mozambique is classified as A. m. litorea Smith, a second in Zimbabwe as A. m. scutellata Lepeletier and a third group in southwestern Zambia as A.m. adansonii Latreille. A zone of introgression between the last two subspecies occurs in south-central Zambia and in the Zambezi Valley.
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