Thermal Responses of the Diceroprocta Cinctifera Species Group (Homoptera: Cicadidae)
Sanborn AF and Phillips PK. 1996. Thermal Responses of the Diceroprocta Cinctifera Species Group (Homoptera: Cicadidae). The Southwestern Naturalist. 41(2):136-139
We investigated the thermal responses (minimum flight, maximum voluntary tolerance and heat torpor temperatures) of the cicada Diceroprocta cinctifera and made comparisons to the thermal responses determined for the varietal forms D. cinctifera var. viridicosta and D. cinctifera var. limpia. All species inhabit riparian communities along the Rio Grande River or a tributary system. We found no significant difference between the mass or thermal responses of the three species. Similar thermal responses could be expected because the species inhabit similar environments and should therefore be exposed to similar thermal regimes. We conclude that although the varietal forms of D. cinctifera differ morphologically from the type species they do not differ in their thermal physiology.
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- Journal Article
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- Sanborn, Allen; Phillips, Polly
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- cicada, Diceroprocta cinctifera, IAR, Invertebrates, Response, Thermal, Uhler