title: Morphology, songs and genetics identify two new cicada species from Morocco:Tettigettalnaafroamissasp. nov. andBerberigettadimelodicagen. nov. & sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Cicadettini).
abstract: Morocco has been the subject of very few expeditions on the last century with the objective of studying small cicadas. In the summer of 2014 an expedition was carried out to Morocco to update our knowledge with acoustic recordings and genetic data of these poorly known species. We describe here two new small-sized cicadas that could not be directly assigned to any species of North African cicadas: Tettigettalna afroamissa sp. nov. and Berberigetta dimelodica gen. nov. & sp. nov. In respect to T. afroamissa it is the first species of the genus to be found outside Europe and we frame this taxon within the evolutionary history of the genus. Acoustic analysis of this species allows us to confidently separate T. afroamissa from its congeners. With B. dimelodica, a small species showing a remarkable calling song characterized by an abrupt frequency modulation, a new genus had to be erected. Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood phylogenetic analyses with DNA-barcode sequences of Cytochrome C Oxidase 1 support the monophyly of both species, their distinctness and revealed genetic structure within B. dimelodica. Alongside the descriptions we also provide GPS coordinates of collection points, distributions and habitat preferences.
authors.affiliation: Computational Biology and Population Genomics Group, Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal.. user@example.com.
authors.forename: Gonçalo João
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: Vera L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Nunes
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marabuto
authors.forename: Raquel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mendes
authors.forename: Telma G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Laurentino
authors.forename: José Alberto
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Quartau
authors.forename: Octávio S
authors.initials: OS
authors.lastname: Paulo
authors.forename: Paula Cristina
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Simões
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D005060:Europe; D006430:Hemiptera; D009018:Morocco; D010802:Phylogeny
keywords: Hemiptera, Cicada, new genus, new species, Morocco