The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-10-04
4493
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1
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journal article
29291
10.11646/zootaxa.4493.1.1
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Genus
Ollanta
Distant, 1905d
Ollanta
Distant 1905d: 313
.
TYPE
SPECIES.
Ollanta mexicana
Distant, 1905a: 141
. (Atoyac, Vera Cruz, Mexico)
Remarks.
Species of the genus are distinguished by their prominent eyes projecting laterally beyond the anterior angles of the pronotum, the head being broader than the mesonotum, a globose postclypeus, large timbal covers exposing only a portion of the timbal dorsally with rounded anterior covering timbal cavity laterally, anteriorly narrowing lateral pronotal margins, abdomen about as long as length between apex of postclypeus and posterior cruciform elevation (
Distant 1905d
). The genus can be distinguished from
Pacarina
Distant, 1905d
by the vertex in the are of the ocelli being about the same as the length of the frons rather that being longer than the frons as it is in
Pacarina
, the large timbal covers that enclose the timbal cavity laterally, the more globose postcylpeus, and larger body size (
Distant 1905d
;
1906
;
Sanborn
et al.
2012
).
Distribution.
The genus has been reported from the Caribbean and
Central
America with records from
the Bahamas
,
Belize
,
Costa
Rica
,
Dominican Republic
,
El Salvador
,
Guatemala
,
Honduras
,
Mexico
,
Nicaragua
, and the
Turks
&
Caicos
(
Metcalf, 1963a
;
Sanborn & Maes 2012
;
Maes
et al.
2012
;
Sanborn, 2013
;
2014
).