Phylogeny of North America’s largest cicada radiation redefines Tibicinoides and Okanagana (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae: Tibicininae)
Author
Cole, Jeffrey A.
Entomology Section, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA & Division of Natural Sciences, Pasadena City College, 1570 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91106 USA
Author
Chatfield-Taylor, Will
Institute of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Canada, K 1 S 5 B 6
Author
Smeds, Elliott A.
Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA 94188 USA
Author
Cooley, John R.
0000-0002-3691-2592
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut Hartford, 10 Prospect Street, Hartford, CT 06103 USA https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3691 - 2592
Author
Gonzalez, Valorie A.
0000-0002-8454-8393
Department of Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8454 - 8393
Author
Wong, Caressa
Division of Natural Sciences, Pasadena City College, 1570 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91106 USA
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Zootaxa
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Okanagana rubrobasalis
Davis, 1926
stat. rev.
=
Okanagana tristis rubrobasalis
Davis, 1926
Okanagana tristis rubrobasalis
—
Davis, 1926: 184
.
Okanagana rubrobasalis
—
Katō, 1932: 175
(Revised status to species level).
Okanagana tristis rubrobasilis
—
[sic],
Simons, 1954: 178
(Revised status to original combination and spelling error)
Okanagana rubrobasalis
stat. rev.
(Revised to species level as proposed by
Katō, 1932
).
Type Locality:
Holotype
: male from
Nellie
,
San Diego Co.
,
CA
,
24 June 1918
;
Allotype
from
Upland
,
San Bernardino Co.
,
CA
1 July 1920
.
Holotype
and
allotype
are deposited at
American Museum of Natural History
(
Sanborn & Heath 2017
).
Rationale for status revision:
Two fresh specimens were sequenced, including one from near the
allotype
locality of
O. tristis rubrobasalis
at Upland, San Bernardino Co.,
California
(
Davis 1926
; Supp.
Table 1
). Our results found a sister relationship for
O. tristis tristis
+
O. canescens
(
Figs. 5–7
). Unlike
O. tristis
, this species exhibits a rainfall-mediated protoperiodical phenology (
Chatfield-Taylor & Cole 2017
) and has a southern distribution that is allopatric from
O. tristis tristis
. There are also measurable, consistent differences in the dominant frequency of their call (unpublished data). The clear genetic separation from
O. tristis tristis
(
COI
uncorrected distance 5.56–5.68%; Supp.
Table 2
), combined with differing ecology and an allopatric distribution support revising the status of
O. tristis rubrobasalis
to the level of species as
O. rubrobasalis
stat. rev.
as first proposed by
Katō (1932)
.
FIGURE 13.
Okanagana rubrobasalis
A. male habitus, dorsal view, B. male habitus, ventral view, C. male genitalia, right lateral view, D. male genitalia, dorsal view, E. female genitalia, ventral view, F. timbal.
Description:
O. rubrobasalis
was originally described as a subspecies of
O. tristis
(
Davis 1926
)
. Major separating features from
O. tristis
included the blood-red wing membranes in
O. rubrobasalis
(
Fig. 13A, B
) compared to pale orange in
O. tristis
, a longer, red sternite VIII (
Fig. 13C, D
), broader wings, and the differing geographic distribution (
Davis 1926
). We here add that the front is strongly pronounced as in
O. cruentifera
rather than like
O. tristis
. The trapezoidal pattern of markings on the mesonotum are red and much less pronounced than the orange markings in typical
O. tristis
. In new specimens (which Davis seldom had) the sternites are also blood red (
Figs 13B, E
) rather than orange, losing this strong color gradually over time. The tergites are lined with red along their distal margins (
Fig. 13A
).