On the trail of mountain cicadas

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Scopoli\'s Cicada montana......Page 8
Introduction......Page 11
Tom Moore and an encounter with seventeen-year periodical cicadas......Page 14
A brief overview of cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae)......Page 16
The charm of tropical cicadas......Page 21
A \"well-explored\" Europe......Page 24
Bioacoustic research of cicadas in Slovenia and Croatia......Page 28
Where is the mountain cicada?......Page 30
The use of ultrasound detectors and other electronic equipment......Page 35
Tomi becomes a cicada enthusiast......Page 40
A review paper on the cicadas of Slovenia......Page 42
The Andrej Kapla phenomenon......Page 44
A new species of \"mountain cicada\" is discovered in Macedonia......Page 47
The French and the Pyrenean cicada (Cicadetta cerdaniensis)......Page 50
Which cicada, then, is the Scopoli\'s Cicada montana?......Page 54
Tomi finds the third species in Slovenia - is it the \"Pyrenean\"?......Page 57
Visits to Poland......Page 59
New discoveries in Macedonia......Page 67
The paper in the Brazilian Annals......Page 71
The cicadas from mount Parnassus that squat and sing on the ground......Page 75
Sakis and the first two cicada field trips to Greece......Page 77
Field trip to Montenegro in 2005......Page 81
The second field trip to Greece and a new species......Page 84
The third field trip to Greece and the limit 40 degrees north......Page 88
What of Crete?......Page 91
The island of Eubea, Euboea, Euboia or Evia......Page 95
Three mountains and four new species......Page 97
Iran 2007......Page 107
The fifth cicadafield trip to Greece: surprises in the northeast of Greece......Page 111
The first field trip to Romania in 2004......Page 114
Baile Herculane 2008......Page 117
Bulgaria 2008......Page 120
Bulgaria 2009......Page 123
Bulgaria 2010 and 2012......Page 129
The Swiss Thomas Hertach......Page 133
Revisiting the island of Evia in the seasons 2010 to 2012......Page 137
Via Skaloula to the island of Kefalonia......Page 145
Humboldt grant after 46 years......Page 150
Peloponnese 2012......Page 153
Song groups, phylogeny, cladistics and molecular research......Page 155
How many mountain cicadas are there and where are they distributed?......Page 159
Acknowledgements......Page 164
Litarature......Page 165
Afterword......Page 171
Names of the cicadas mentioned in the text, and their synonyms......Page 174