The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) of Madagascar including a new tribe, five new genera, twelve new species, four new species synonymies, five revised species status, ten new combinations, new tribal assignments for four genera, one new subtribe synonymy, a checklist and key to the species
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-02-24
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journal article
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Pycna madagascarensis
(
Distant, 1879
)
Platypleura madagascarensis
Distant 1879: 217
. (Tamatave,
Madagascar
)
Remarks.—The other species of the genus with a body length less than
37 mm
and a wingspan less than
100 mm
. Body length about
28–30 mm
, wingspan about
91–95 mm
(
Distant 1879
;
Karsch 1890
; specimen in hand). It can be distinguished from
P. angusta
by the pronotum width being about
16 mm
, the oblique anterior angles of the pronotum, the unmarked mesonotum, the hour-glass shaped fulvous mark on dorsal abdominal tergites 1–3 on the otherwise piceous abdomen, the absence of a broad piceous margin on the opercula, and the piceous external margin of the hind wings. The song is a series of syllables that increase in intensity followed by a short tone of decreasing intensity with peak energy about 5 kHz but including a series of higher frequency harmonics (
Boulard 2006b
;
2008
).
Distribution.—The species is only known from
Madagascar
(
Metcalf 1963a
;
Duffels & van der Laan 1985
;
Sanborn 2013
; 2020). The species has been reported from Tamatave, western
Madagascar
and
Antananarivo
, central
Madagascar
(
Karsch 1890
;
Distant 1879
;
Jacobi 1917
).
Material examined.—“
Madagascar
/ Macvatanana” one male (AFSC).