- Recently Gernot Kunz put his phantastic photographs of hoppers, hopperologists and other stuff into the web. A really nice page ... [23. Oktober 2006]
- AnimalBase is a service of the Göttingen University Library offering free online access to digitised old zoological literature. Currently all original descriptions published between 1757 until 1769 are included. Concerning Auchenorrhyncha, there is a number of papers e.g. by Carl von Linné and Giovanni Antonio Scopoli.
Since further funding has become problematic, users are kindly requested to send a short opinion or review to Francisco Welter-Schultes in order to stress the importance of this project. [26th June 2006] - The Red List of the Auchenorrhyncha of Germany is now available on this site as pdf (3.0 MB). Preparations for the second edition, due 2008, have recently commenced. [January 31st 2006]
- There is now a new web site about the Hemiptera fauna of Finland by Guy Söderman and co-workers, with an updated checklist and precise distribution maps of Auchenorrhyncha and Heteroptera. [November 28th 2005]
- The Auchenorrhyncha Ecology Group is now offering an updated list of publications of its participants. [November 2nd 2005]
- The new volume 9(4) of the Journal of Insect Conservation specifically treats the conservation of grassland Auchenorrhyncha. It contains 10 original papers written by colleagues from the UK, US and Germany and is available online (with license) on the Springer website.
Contents
Stewart, A.J.A.: Editorial. pp. 227-228.
Biedermann, R.; Achtziger, R.; Nickel, H.; Stewart, A.J.A.: Conservation of grassland leafhoppers: a brief review. pp. 229-243.
Strauss, B.; Biedermann, R.: The use of habitat models in conservation of rare and endangered leafhopper species (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha). pp. 245-259.
Hines, J.; Lynch, M.E.; Denno, R.F.: Sap-feeding insect communities as indicators of habitat fragmentation and nutrient subsidies. pp. 261-280.
Maczey, N.; Masters, G.J.; Hollier, J.A.; Mortimer, S.R.; Brown, V.K.: Community associations of chalk grassland leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha): conclusions for habitat conservation. pp. 281-298.
Hollier, J.A.; Maczey, N.; Masters, G.J.; Mortimer, S.R.: Grassland leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) as indicators of habitat condition – a comparison of between-site and between-year differences in assemblage composition. pp. 299-307.
Eyre, M.D.: Habitat diversity in the conservation of the grassland Auchenorrhyncha (Homoptera: Cercopidae, Cicadellidae, Cixidae, Delphacidae) of Northern Britain. pp. 309-317.
Nickel, H.; Achtziger, R.: Do they ever come back? Responses of leafhopper communities to extensification of land use. pp. 319-333.
Rothenbücher, J.; Schaefer, M.: Conservation of leafhoppers in floodplain grasslands – trade-off between diversity and naturalness in a Northern German National Park. pp. 335-349.
Fisher Barham, D.; Stewart, A.J.A.: Differential indirect effects of excluding livestock and rabbits from chalk heath on the associated leafhopper (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) fauna. pp. 351-361.
Morris, M.G.; Clarke, R.T.; Rispin, W.E.: The success of a rotational grazing system in conserving the diversity of chalk grassland Auchenorrhyncha. pp. 363-374.
[September 27th 2005] - The databases of Fauna Europaea are online now for a while. Here is the link to Hemiptera. [March 31st 2005]
- We proudly present the description of another new species: Kilian Philipp. General appearance similar to Lorenz Gregor, to which it seems closely related, but eyes greyish blue, hair shiny blond, 3400 gram, 54 cm, surprisingly low vocal activity. Ecology insufficiently known, may feed on xylem sap due to its inflated cheeks. Type locality: Göttingen, October 31th 2004, leg. Lorenz and Anja Ritzel & Herbert Nickel. [November 12th 2004]
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Now in print: Beiträge zur Zikadenkunde 7 (2004):
- Nickel, H., Mühlethaler, R.: Heidi Günthart celebrates her 85th birthday.
- Maczey, N.: Die Zikadenfauna des Maggelhansluches: Tyrphobionte und tyrphophile Indikatoren für die naturschutzfachliche Bewertung eines brandenburgischen Kesselmoores (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha et Cicadomorpha).
- Söderman, G.: Auchenorrhyncha captured at light in Finland (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha et Cicadomorpha).
- Borodin, O.: A checklist of the Auchenorrhyncha of Belarus (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha et Cicadomorpha).
- Stöckmann, M., Niedringhaus, R.: Das Kolonisationsgeschehen auf den jungen Nordseeinseln Memmert und Mellum am Beispiel der Zikaden (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha et Cicadomorpha).
[October 30th 2004]
- New literature references are now available on a separate page of my website. It will replace the earlier, irregular notes of the "Auchenorrhyncha-Rundbrief" and will focus on morphology, systematics, zoogeography and ecology of (central) European and western Palearctic Auchenorrhyncha. It will also include ecological issues of plant - herbivore relationships in a wider context as well as regional faunistic papers, "grey literature" and websites. Notices are welcome. Addenda will follow more or less periodically. [August 23rd 2004]
- Thanks to long-lasting bioacoustic studies of Matija Gogala and Tomi Trilar (Ljubljana) the solution of the problem of Cicadetta montana (Scop.), the mountain cicada, has come within reach, at least for central Europe. Accordingly, there are at least three bioacoustically distinct species. The most important results were recently published in a paper which is freely available as pdf (344 KB). [Juli 15th 2004]
- The elusive Keys to the Insects of the Far-Eastern USSR, Volume II, the Homoptera and Heteroptera (Hemiptera) have been translated into English and are now free available on the International Heteropterists’ Society's website. The Auchenorrhyncha section (pdf, 12,2 MB) was written by G.A. Anufriev and A.F. Emeljanov (1988) and comprises 514 pages. Other sections include the Aleyrodina, Aphidina, Coccinea, Heteroptera and Psyllina. [June 24th 2004]
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Now published: Entomofauna Germanica 6 (2003):
Entomofauna Germanica, the comprehensive catalogue of the German insect fauna edited by B. Klausnitzer has now been completed. The 6th volume includes an up-to-date checklist of the Auchenorrhyncha of all federal states of Germany as well as chapters of all the remaining hemipteran taxa. [January 26th 2004] - Carl Ludwig Kirschbaum's Auchenorrhyncha collection rearranged
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Now published: Beiträge zur Zikadenkunde 6 (2003):
- Chudzicka, E., Gebiçki, C.: In memoriam Janusz Nast (1908 - 1991).
- Witsack, W.: Zum Gedenken an Steffen Hahn (1965 - 2002).
- Löcker, H.: Arborikole Zikaden-Gilden Sloweniens (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha).
- Nickel, H., Billen, W., Günthart, H., Lauterer, P., Löcker, H., Malenovský, I., Mühlethaler, R., Schürrer, S., Witsack, W.: Zur Fauna der Zikaden, Wanzen und Augenfliegen des Kaiserstuhls (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha et Heteroptera; Diptera: Pipunculidae).
- Nickel, H., Holzinger, W.E., Lauterer, P., Remane, R., Witsack, W.: Die Spornzikadengattung Metropis Fieber, 1866 in Mitteleuropa (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha: Delphacidae).
- Preisler, J., Lauterer, P.: Some new findings of planthoppers and leafhoppers for the fauna of the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha).
[December 8th 2003]
- Out now:
Holzinger, W.E., Kammerlander, I., Nickel, H.: The Auchenorrhyncha of central Europe - Die Zikaden Mitteleuropas. Volume 1: Fulgoromorpha, Cicadomorpha excl. Cicadellidae. - Brill, Leiden, 673 pp.
More information
[May 22nd 2003] - An English version of the check list of the Auchenorrhyncha species of Germany is now available as pdf (232 KB) [May 8th 2003]
- Out now:
[March 21st 2003]
Nickel, H. (2003): The leafhoppers and planthoppers of Germany (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha): patterns and strategies in a highly diverse group of phytophagous insects. - Pensoft Publishers, Sofia and Moscow. 460 pp. Contents Order form
We proudly present the description of a new species: Lorenz Gregor. Characters: deep blue eyes, long brown hair, 3250 grams, 52 cm, loud voice, nocturnal activity peak. Type locality: Göttingen, December 28th 2002, leg. Anja Ritzel and Herbert Nickel [January 9th 2003]
Recently the Auchenorrhyncha Ecology Group has posted a new website with informations on objectives, participants, meetings and publications. [October 23rd 2002]
About 850 references mainly on central European Auchenorrhyncha, focusing on ecology, systematics, morphology and zoogeography, incl. further relevant papers on other phytophagous animal groups - please use the search function of your browser. [September 29th 2002]
The final volume of the Entomofauna Germanica (Ed.: Bernhard Klausnitzer) will probably be published at the end of the year and will comprise the Auchenorrhyncha (authors: Herbert Nickel and Reinhard Remane). The article will provide critical up-to-date check lists of the federal states of Germany in tabular form. [September 3rd 2002]
- We are happy to announce the forthcoming volume I of a new identification key to Auchenorrhyncha:
Holzinger, W.E., Kammerlander, I., Nickel, H.: The Auchenorrhyncha of central Europe - Die Zikaden Mitteleuropas. Volume 1: Fulgoromorpha, Cicadomorpha excl. Cicadellidae. More information Subscription
For almost 70 years, this will be the first up-to-date identification work of the complete fauna of central and northern Europe. The text will be bilingual; the first volume will treat about 250 species and comprise 46 colour plates with altogether 738 photographs, 211 distribution maps and more than 1500 figures. We hope to present sample plates and chapters on the Potsdam congress.
The complete work is intended to treat more than 800 species, covering the whole fauna of central and northern Europe as well as the British Isles. It will include keys for identification, about 150 photographic plates and about 5000 drawings of genital organs and other structures relevant for identification, distribution maps as well as information on phenology, habitats, host plants, geographical and altitudinal distribution. The series shall be completed within the next five years. [August 1st 2002] The new volume of the Beiträge zur Zikadenkunde has been printed last week, with a new Checklist of the Auchenorrhyncha species of Germany, which is now online and can be downloaded as pdf. It contains 620 species and provides data on food plants, diet width, overwintering stage, voltinism, geographic range, conservation status and, if necessary, taxonomic remarks, as well as a description of a new species. Explanations to the species list are bilingual German/English, a translation of the remaining sections will be online soon. The whole volume will be presented on the Potsdam congress, but can also be ordered through Dr. Werner Witsack (Halle). [July 23rd 2002]
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Carl Ludwig Kirschbaum's Auchenorrhyncha in the Natural History Collection of the Museum of Wiesbaden have now been rearranged. These specimens are part of one of Europe's most important Hemiptera collections of the 19th century. Until recently, it was barely possible to detect a particular specimen, because the original order had been altered by several curators in the 1920s and 1970s without finishing the rearrangement. In addition, all specimens have now been entered into a database, parts of which are available online at the museum's website. The Auchenorrhyncha collection comprises more than 5.000 specimens including 333 types, mainly from western parts of Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy and Spain. [16.1.2004] |
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