The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae)
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
Department of Biology, Barry University, 11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami Shores, FL 33161 - 6695, USA
asanborn@barry.edu
Author
Heath, Maxine S.
104 Hummingbird Circle, Buchanan Dam, TX 78609, USA
maxine@txwinet.com
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Zootaxa
2014
2014-11-11
3883
1
1
94
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1
1175-5326
4951252
48A4C0DF-00B7-45C6-8D10-5BFE40A251EE
Odopoea signata
(
Haupt, 1918
)
rev. stat., comb. n.
Adusella signata
Haupt 1918: 84
.
Type locality
.
Catamarca
,
Argentina
.
Remarks
.
Delétang (1919)
incorrectly transferred
Tettigades lebruni
Distant, 1906
to a new genus:
Edholmbergia
. However, the illustration of
E. lebruni
in
Delétang (1919)
clearly does not match the
type
specimen of
T. lebruni
in the
BMNH
and
T. lebruni
has been reassigned to
Tettigades
(
Torres 1958a
)
.
Metcalf (1963a)
synonymized
T. lebruni
,
O. venturii
Distant, 1906
,
Adusella signata
and
Edholmbergia lebruni
with
O. lebruni
.
Odopoea venturii
was considered correctly a distinct species in
Duffels & van der Laan (1985)
. The figures of
Adusella signata
in
Haupt (1918)
and
Edholmbergia lebruni
in
Delétang (1919)
appear to depict the same species. Both are members of the genus
Odopoea
rather than
Tettigades
. Therefore,
Edholmbergi
is retained as a junior synonym of
Odopoea
despite the fact it was originally produced for a species that is now classified in the genus
Tettigades
. The taxon
T. lebruni
was misapplied to the specimen used as the
type
for the genus
Edholmbergi
. As a result,
Adusella signata
rev. stat.
is resurrected as a valid species and reassigned to
Odopoea
to become
O. signata
(
Haupt, 1918
)
comb. n.
The lateral extensions of the pronotum in
O. signata
are less expansive than
O. venturii
, the forewing is more ovoid, and the zig-zag pattern of infuscation along the transverse veins at the base of the apical cells may also be incomplete. It also appears to have a more southerly distribution than
O. venturii
with specimens being collected in
Catamarca
and
La Rioja
Provinces (
Metcalf 1963a
;
Goemans 2010
) while
O. venturii
has been reported from
Catamarca
,
Salta
, and
Tucumán
(
Distant 1906a
;
Hayward 1942
;
Torres 1946
;
Hayward 1960
) in
Argentina
extending northward through
Bolivia
(AFS unpublished) into
Peru
(
Jacobi, 1951
). Therefore, we resurrect
Odopoea signata
as a valid species.