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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10.11646/zootaxa.4493.1.1
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Diceroprocta nigriventris
(
Walker, 1858a
)
Cicada nigriventris
Walker 1858a: 21
. (Mexico)
Remarks.
The green prothorax, ochraceous mesothorax marked with piceous with ferruginous lateral regions, the ferruginous timbal covers, on the piceous dorsal abdomen make the species easy to distinguish. The species can be differentiated from related species of
Diceroprocta
by its size (body length
22.6 mm
, wing span
73.3 mm
), the entire prothorax is green, the lack of markings on the dorsal mesothorax anterior to the cruciform elevation, the median uncus lobes do not curve beyond the lateral uncus lobes, the testaceous timbal covers extend well above the abdominal surface contrasting the piceous abdominal tergites. However, the southern records may represent misidentifications of
D. heathi
(
Sanborn 2010a
)
based on the known range from the
type
series (
Sanborn 2010a
). Specimens from
Panama
need to be reviewed to verify the presence of this species as the descriptions in
Walker (1858)
are sufficiently vague so that
D. bimaculata
(
Sanborn 2010a
)
and
D. heathi
would also fit the descriptions provided by
Walker (1858)
and
Distant (1881)
figured an example of
D. bimaculata
as
D. nigriventris
.
Distribution.
The species has been reported from
Costa
Rica
,
Mexico
, and
Panama
(
Metcalf 1963a
;
Sanborn 2013
;
2014
).