The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-08-12
4655
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journal article
26048
10.11646/zootaxa.4655.1.1
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Herrera criqualicae
(
Boulard, 1986a
)
n. comb.
Carineta criqualicae
Boulard 1986a: 423
. (On Alice Creek, Saut Anali,
French Guiana
)
REMARKS. While trying to identify the new species of
Carineta
and
Herrera
for this study, I found a problem with the generic assignment of
Carineta criqualicae
. The species was described in the genus
Carineta
but
Boulard (1986a)
lists (and specimens in my possession confirm) that the head (
6 mm
) is wider than the mesonotum (
5.8 mm
). A head as wide as or wider than the mesonotum is characteristic of species of the genus
Herrera
while the head is not as wide as the mesonotum in species of
Carineta
(see above). The lateral pronotum is not strongly angled mediad in this species as in species of
Carineta
.
Boulard (1986a)
also commented on the large vertex, another characteristic of
Herrera
and not
Carineta
. Therefore, based on the head being wider than the mesonotum, the large vertex and the shape of the prothorax, the species is reassigned to
Herrera
to become
Herrera criqualicae
(
Boulard, 1986a
)
n. comb.
DISTRIBUTION. The species has been recorded from
French Guiana
(
Sanborn 2013
; 2011a).