Two new species and two new records for cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from French Guiana, with an updated faunal list of French Guiana and the first synoptic list for Guyana
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-11-07
5368
1
1
74
https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5368.1.1/52226
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5368.1.1
1175-5334
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Quesada gigas
(
Olivier, 1790
)
Cicada gigas
Olivier 1790: 750
(Java).
Cicada triupsilon
Walker 1850: 103
(Unknown collection locality).
Cicada sonans
Walker 1850: 104
(Unknown collection locality).
Cicada consonans
Walker 1850: 106
(
West Coast
of America).
Cicada vibrans
Walker 1850: 107
(Unknown collection locality).
Tympanoterpes sibilarix
Berg 1879: 141
(
Argentina
,
Brazil
,
Bolivia
).
Distribution.
This species may have the most extensive north to south range of any cicada species.
Quesada gigas
has been reported from as far south as central
Argentina
,
Belize
,
Bolivia
,
Brazil
,
Colombia
,
Costa Rica
,
Ecuador
,
El Salvador
, French Guiana,
Guatemala
,
Guyana
,
Honduras
,
Mexico
,
Nicaragua
,
Panama
,
Paraguay
,
Peru
, the Antilles, the West Indies,
Trinidad & Tobago
,
Uruguay
,
Venezuela
, extending northward into the southern
United States
(
Metcalf 1963a
;
Duffels & van der Laan 1985
;
Sanborn 2011
a, 2013
,
2014
,
2018b
,
2019
a, 2020a
, c, d, e;
Sanborn & Heath 2014
;
Nunes
et al.
2023
).
Canada
(
Sanborn & Heath 2017
),
Suriname
(
Sanborn 2020d
), and
Chile
(
Sanborn 2021b
) are the only countries in the New World without a record of the species.
Material examined.
“
FRENCH GUIANA
: /
Sa̧l
/
12-VIII-2010
/
SEAG
leg.”
one male
and
three females
(
AFSC
);
“
FRENCH GUIANA
/
Sa̧l Pointe-de-Vue
/
15-IX-2015
/
Automatic Light trap
,
Blue light
/
Soc. Ent. Antilles-Guyane
leg.”
two males
(
AFSC
);
“
FRENCH GUIANA
/
Sa̧l Pointe-de-Vue
/
13-X-2015
/
Automatic Light trap
,
Blue light
/
Soc. Ent. Antilles-Guyane
leg.”
two females
(
AFSC
);
“
FRENCH GUIANA
/
Sa̧l Pointe-de-Vue
/
01-IX-2015
/
Automatic Light trap
,
Blue light
/
Soc. Ent. Antilles-Guyane
leg.”
two males
(
AFSC
).