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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Yanga heathi
(
Distant, 1899
)
Platypleura heathi
Distant 1899: 475
. (
Madagascar
)
Remarks.—The third of four species with the hind wings piceous or piceous-brown. It can be distinguished from
Y. antiopa
by the lack of lighter distal apical cells, and from the lack of white apical areas found in
Y. brancsiki
and
Y. hova
. Body length is
32–38 mm
, wingspan is about
97–115 mm
(
Distant 1899
; specimens in hand).
Distribution.—The species is only known from
Madagascar
(
Metcalf 1963a
;
Sanborn 2013
).
Jacobi (1917)
reported the species from Tulear, southwestern
Madagascar
.
Material
examined.—“
MADAGASCAR
:
Mahajanga
/ Province, Parc National de / Namoroka,
16.9 km
317º NW / Vilanandro elev
100m
/
12–16 Nov 2002
//
16º 24’ 24” S
045º 18’ 36” E
/ coll.
Fisher
,
Griswold
et al. / California Acad. of Sciences / collected at light, tropical dry / forest coll.
Code
: BLF6585 // CASENT / 3007922” one male (
AFSC
)
;
“
MADAGASCAR
:
Mahajanga
/
Prov
:
Parc National Tsingy
/ de Bemaraha,
3.4 km
93º E /
Bekopaka
,
Tombeau Vazimba
/
Elev
50m
6–10 Nov 2001
//
19º 8’ 31” S
44º 49’ 41” E
/ coll.
Fisher
,
Griswold
et al. /
California Acad. of Sciences
/ collected at light, tropical dry / forest coll.
Code
: BLF4235 // CASENT / 3004687” one male (
AFSC
)
;
“
MADAGASCAR
:
Mahajanga
/
Prov
:
Parc National Tsingy
/ de Bemaraha,
3.4 km
93º E /
Bekopaka
,
Tombeau Vazimba
/
Elev
50m
6–10 Nov 2001
//
19º 8’ 31” S
44º 49’ 41” E
/ coll.
Fisher
,
Griswold
et al. /
California Acad. of Sciences
/ collected at light, tropical dry / forest coll.
Code
: BLF4235 // CASENT / 3004690” one male (
AFSC
)
;
“
MADAGASCAR
:
Mahajanga
/
Prov
:
Parc National Tsingy
/ de Bemaraha,
3.4 km
93º E /
Bekopaka
,
Tombeau Vazimba
/
Elev
50m
6–10 Nov 2001
//
19º 8’ 31” S
44º 49’ 41” E
/ coll.
Fisher
,
Griswold
et al. /
California Acad. of Sciences
/ collected at light, tropical dry / forest coll.
Code
: BLF4235 // CASENT / 3004676” one female (
AFSC
)
;
“
MADAGASCAR
:
Mahajanga
/
Province
,
Parc National
de /
Namoroka
,
16.9 km
317º NW /
Vilanandro
elev
100m
/
12–16 Nov 2002
//
16º 24’ 24” S
045º 18’ 36” E
/ coll.
Fisher
,
Griswold
et al. /
California Acad. of Sciences
/ collected at light, tropical dry / forest coll.
Code
: BLF6585 // CASENT / 3008082” one female (
AFSC
)
;
“
Madagascar
:
Toliara Prov.
/
Forêt de Kirindy
,
15.5 km
64º / ENE
Marofandilia
, elev
100m
/
20º 2’ 42”S
44º 39’ 44” E
/
28 Nov.—3 Dec. 2001
// coll: Fisher, Griswold et al. /
California Acad. of Sciences
/ at light—in tropical dry forest / collection code: BLF4603 // CASENT / 3004661” one female (
AFSC
)
.