The cicadas of Colombia including new records and the description of a new species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae)
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
Department of Biology, Barry University, Miami Shores, FL, USA
text
Journal of Natural History
2010
2010-06-18
44
25 - 26
1577
1607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222931003760046
journal article
10.1080/00222931003760046
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Quesada gigas
(
Olivier, 1790
)
Cicada gigas
Olivier 1790: 750
.
Cicada triupsilon
,
Walker 1850: 103
.
Cicada sonans
,
Walker 1850: 104
.
Cicada consonans
,
Walker 1850: 106
.
Cicada vibrans
,
Walker 1850: 107
.
Cicada triypsilon
[sic],
Dohrn 1859: 73
.
Cicada grossa
[nec Fabricius],
Stål 1861: 614
.
Tympanoterpes sibilatrix
Berg 1879: 141
.
Cicada trupsilon
[sic],
Uhler 1905: 75
.
Tympanoterpes sibilantis
[sic],
Kobayashi 1939a: 12
.
Tympanoterpis sibilantes
[sic],
Kobayashi 1939b: 191
.
Q[uesada] gicas
[sic],
Martinelli and Zucchi 1987: 51
.
Tympanotherpes
[sic]
(=Quesada)
gigas
,
Salazar Escobar 2005: 193
.
This species has one of the most extensive north to south distributions of any cicada species. It has been reported from central
Argentina
to the southern
United States
(
Metcalf 1963a
;
Duffels and van der Laan 1985
;
Sanborn et al. 1995b
;
Sanborn 2001
,
2006b
,
2007a
,b;
Sueur 2002
;
Boulard 2005
;
Salazar Escobar 2005
;
De Santis et al. 2007
). The species has been reported from Manaure (
Distant 1881a
;
Jacobi 1907
),
Cauca
, Tomlima,
Caldas
,
Cundinamarca
,
Antioquia
and
Santander
(
Figueroa Potes 1952
),
Caldas
, Río
Cauca
and
Tolima
, Mariquita-El Bosque (
Salazar Escobar 2005
) in
Colombia
.