{"id":8563,"date":"2018-11-19T01:01:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T08:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=8563"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:08:26","slug":"zammara-brevis-distant-1905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/zammara-brevis-distant-1905\/","title":{"rendered":"Zammara brevis (Distant, 1905)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Zammara brevis<\/em><\/strong> (Distant, 1905) is a cicada found in <strong>Colombia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It was formerly known as <em>Orellana brevis<\/em>, as you can see from the image below. The <em>Zammara<\/em> and <em>Orellana<\/em> genera are very similar &#8212; both belong to the tribe Zammarini, both share pronounced pronotal collars and often green coloring. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientific classification:<\/strong><br \/>\nFamily: Cicadidae<br \/>\nSubfamily: Cicadinae<br \/>\nTribe: Zammarini<br \/>\nGenus: <em>Zammara<\/em><br \/>\nSpecies: <em>Zammara brevis<\/em> (Distant, 1905)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Orellana-brevis-Genera-Insectorum.jpg\" alt=\"Zammara brevis (Distant, 1905)\" width=\"640\" height=\"653\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Orellana-brevis-Genera-Insectorum.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Orellana-brevis-Genera-Insectorum-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>The image says <em>Orellana brevis<\/em>, but the newest name of this cicada is <em>Zammara brevis<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Zammara<\/em> genus description by <strong>W. L. Distant<\/strong> from Genera Insectorum, 1914:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCharacters. \u2014 Head (including eyes) about as wide as base of mesonotum, ocelli farther removed from eyes than from each other, eyes prominent but scarcely projecting beyond the anterior pronotal angles, vertex strongly depressed before base of front; face longer than broad, narrowly sulcate; pronotum shorter than mesonotum, the lateral margins angularly ampliate; mesonotum about as long as head and pronotum together; metanotum exposed; abdomen short; tympanal coverings outwardly complete, the orifices very widely exposed internally; opercula short, oblique; rostrum reaching or slightly passing the posterior coxae; tegmina usually three times as long as broad, apical areas eight; wings with six apical areas.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>References:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>The illustration and description comes from the journal <strong>Genera Insectorum<\/strong>, and a specific article from <strong>1914<\/strong> by W. L. Distant titled <strong>Homoptera. Fam. Cicadidae, Subfam, Gaeaninae.<\/strong> Read it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/page\/33769230#page\/9\/mode\/1up\">the Biodiversity Heritage Library website<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Species name verification comes from Allen Sanborn&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/B9780124166479000012?via%3Dihub\">Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zammara brevis (Distant, 1905) is a cicada found in Colombia. It was formerly known as Orellana brevis, as you can see from the image below. The Zammara and Orellana genera are very similar &#8212; both belong to the tribe Zammarini, both share pronounced pronotal collars and often green coloring. Scientific classification: Family: Cicadidae Subfamily: Cicadinae [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[520,365,415,215,378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colombia","category-genera-insectorum","category-william-lucas-distant","category-zammara","category-zammarini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21545,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563\/revisions\/21545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}