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
text
Zootaxa
2014
2014-11-11
3883
1
1
94
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1
1175-5326
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48A4C0DF-00B7-45C6-8D10-5BFE40A251EE
Quesada gigas
(
Olivier, 1790
)
Cicada gigas
Olivier 1790: 750
.
Cicada triupsilon
Walker 1850: 103
(
type
material examined).
Cicada sonans
Walker 1850: 104
(
type
material examined).
Cicada consonans
Walker 1850: 106
.
Cicada vibrans
Walker 1850: 107
.
Cicada grossa
[nec Fabricius]
Stål 1861: 614
.
Tympanoterpes sibilatrix
Berg 1879: 141
.
Type
locality
. Java is mistakenly listed as the
type
locality. The species is restricted to the New World.
Remarks
. The species is distributed from central
Argentina
to southern Texas in the New World with records of specimens from the Antilles,
Argentina
,
Belize
,
Bolivia
,
Brazil
,
Colombia
,
Costa Rica
,
Ecuador
,
El Salvador
,
French Guiana
,
Guatemala
,
Guyana
,
Honduras
,
Mexico
,
Nicaragua
,
Panama
,
Paraguay
,
Peru
,
Trinidad & Tobago
,
Uruguay
,
United States
,
Venezuela
, and the West Indies (
Metcalf 1963a
;
Duffels & van der Laan 1985
;
Sanborn 2001
;
2006b
;
2007a
;
2007b
;
2010a
; 2011a; 2011b;
Sueur 2002
;
Sanborn & Maes 2012
). The species has been reported in Catamarca, Chaco, Córdoba, Corrientes, La Rioja, Misiones, Salta, San Luis, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, and Tucumán (
Berg 1879
;
Torres 1945b
;
Hayward 1960
;
Sanborn
et al.
1995b
;
Bolcatto
et al.
2006
;
De Santis
et al.
2006
;
2007
). We collected specimens in Córdoba, Entre Rios, Formosa, Salta, Santiago del Estero, and Tucumán Provinces. The species was collected in the Yunga, Paranense, Chaco, Monte, and Espinal floristic provinces (
Sanborn
et al.
2011a
) and is endothermic (
Sanborn
et al.
1995b
).
New provincial records.
Entre Rios
,
Rt. 14,
2.5 km
S Corrientes
,
4-I-1988
,
F. Noriega
Coll. (
one female
,
MSHC
);
Entre Rios
,
Rt. 14,
2.5 km
S Corrientes
,
4-I-1988
,
J.E. Heath
Coll. (
one male
,
MSHC
);
Formosa
,
8 km
S Tatane
,
28-XII-1986
,
Al Sanborn
&
F. Noriega
Coll. (
one male
,
MSHC
).