The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the description of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
0000-0001-5729-7106
Department of Biology, Barry University, 11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami Shores, FL 33161 – 6695, USA
asanborn@barry.edu
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-11-17
4880
1
1
80
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4880.1.1
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1175-5326
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Genus
Majeorona
Distant, 1905d
Majeorona
Distant 1905d: 318
.
TYPE
SPECIES.—
Fidicina aper
Walker 1850: 87
. (
Cayenne
,
French Guiana
)
REMARKS.—A head with prominent eyes that are stylate and extended anteriorly that is wider than the mesonotum, a pronotum that is shorter than the mesonotum, and timbal covers are not concave dorsally distinguish species of
Majeorona
.
DISTRIBUTION.—Species of the genus have been reported from
Brazil
,
Colombia
,
Costa Rica
,
Ecuador
,
French Guiana
,
Guatemala
,
Honduras
,
Nicaragua
,
Panama
, and
Peru
(
Metcalf 1963a
;
Duffels & van der Laan 1985
; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2014a; 2018c; 2020b;
Sanborn & Maes 2012
;
Maes
et al.
2012
) with recent records expanding the distribution southward into
Bolivia
(
Sanborn 2019b
).