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.
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-10-04
4493
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journal article
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Hemisciera maculipennis
(
de Laporte, 1832
)
Cicada maculipennis
de
Laporte, 1832: 412
. (French Guiana and Brazil)
Cicada versicolor
Brullé, 1835
(in Audouin & Brullé): Plate v,
Fig. 1
.
Cicada sumptuosa
Blanchard, 1840: 165
.
Fidicina floslofia
Walker, 1858a: 15
. (Ega, Brazil)
Remarks.
The species is medium sized (body length
31-34 mm
) with a piceous and brown body. The bright green basal area of the fore wings and bright red on the basal area of the hind wings make the species very easy to identify.
Distribution.
The species has been recorded from
Argentina
,
Bolivia
,
Brazil
,
Ecuador
,
French Guiana
,
Panama
, and
Peru
(
Metcalf 1963a
;
Sanborn 2011a
;
2013
;
Sanborn & Heath 2014
). The species has been reported from Barro Colorado Island,
Panama
Canal Zone,
120 m
altitude in lowland forest (
Wolda & Ramos 1992
) in
Panama
.