The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Suriname including the description of two new species, five new combinations, and three new records
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
0000-0001-5729-7106
Department of Biology, Barry University, 11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami Shores, FL 3316 - 6695, USA
asanborn@barry.edu
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-11-20
4881
3
453
481
journal article
9525
10.11646/zootaxa.4881.3.2
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Genus
Hyantia
Stål, 1866
new record
Hyantia
Stål 1866: 169
.
Type
species.
Cyclochila honesta
Walker 1850: 45
. (
Brazil
).
Remarks.
Marshall
et al.
(2018)
reassigned the genus to
Fidicinini
with the synonymy of the
Hyantiini
. The species of
Hyantia
are fairly large, green species (body lengths
31–44 mm
). The species of the genus possess a non-prominent anterior postclypeus, head slightly wider than mesonotum, anteriorly constricting pronotal lateral margins, wide pronotal collar, abdomen about as long as distance between apex of postclypeus and posterior cruciform elevation, incomplete timbal covers exposing timbals dorsally, triangular opercula, pygofer distal shoulder with small point, uncus with dorsal crest, and large lateral branch of the uncus.
I have an old note that I have seen a specimen of
Hyantia
from
Suriname
. However, this note predates when I started to retain label data and I was unable to find the specimen in a collection due to the COVID-19 pandemic limiting curator availability in the collections where the specimen may have originated.
Hyantia bahlenhorsti
Sanborn, 2011a
was described as many as 10 years after this note was made so there is a question as to which, if either, of the known species of the genus the record represented.
Distribution.
Species of the genus have been reported previously from
Brazil
and
French Guiana
(
Metcalf 1963a
;
Sanborn 2011a
).