Dardar Marah A, Belal Hamzeh Mr
General Commission for Scientific Agricultural research, Administration of Plant Protection Research, Dep. Insects Research, Alkoatly street, Douma, Damascus, Syria.
Zookeys. 2013 Jul 30(319):11-25. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.319.4189. eCollection 2013.
The aim of this study is determining the different patterns of egg nests and the morphological differences between the specimens of Cicadatra persica Kirkalidy, 1909 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) distributed in fruit orchards in Erneh located on AL-Sheikh mountain south west of Syria. The appearance of 80 egg nests was studied, and the results showed that there were two basic patterns of egg nests laid by Cicadatra persica, 90% of the egg nests were of the first pattern (consists of several adjacent slits), while 10% of them were of the second pattern (consists of several divergent slits). A random sample consisting of 300 specimens (150 males and 150 females) were also studied concentrating on the differences in the color of the supra-antennal plate and in the number of spurs on the tibia of the hind legs. The results showed that there were two basic patterns of individuals based on the differences in the color of supra-antennal plate. The first pattern (individuals with yellow supra-antennal plates), constituted more than 90%, and the second one (individuals with black supra-antennal plates) constituted less than 10%. The results also showed that there were 27 different patterns based on the number of spurs on the tibia of the hind legs. One of them was a common pattern (2, 3) whose individuals have 2 spurs on the upper side of the tibia of the hind legs and 3 spurs on the lateral side of the tibia of the hind legs. The total percent of this common pattern was 76%. The other 26 patterns were different from each other, and the total percent of all these different patterns was 24%.
本研究的目的是确定桃斑大叶蝉（Cicadatra persica Kirkalidy，1909年）（半翅目：蝉科）分布于叙利亚西南部谢赫山厄内赫果园的卵窝的不同模式以及标本之间的形态差异。对80个卵窝的外观进行了研究，结果表明，桃斑大叶蝉所产的卵窝有两种基本模式，90%的卵窝为第一种模式（由几个相邻的裂缝组成），而10%的卵窝为第二种模式（由几个发散的裂缝组成）。还对一个由300个标本（150只雄性和150只雌性）组成的随机样本进行了研究，重点关注触角上板颜色和后腿胫节上刺的数量差异。结果表明，根据触角上板颜色的差异，有两种基本的个体模式。第一种模式（触角上板为黄色的个体）占比超过90%，第二种模式（触角上板为黑色的个体）占比不到10%。结果还表明，根据后腿胫节上刺的数量，有27种不同的模式。其中一种是常见模式（2, 3），其个体后腿胫节上侧有2根刺，后腿胫节外侧有3根刺。这种常见模式的总占比为76%。其他26种模式各不相同，所有这些不同模式的总占比为24%。
