The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the description of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
0000-0001-5729-7106
Department of Biology, Barry University, 11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami Shores, FL 33161 – 6695, USA
asanborn@barry.edu
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-11-17
4880
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1
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4880.1.1
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1175-5326
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Genus
Quesada
Distant, 1905c
Quesada
Distant 1905c: 478
.
TYPE
SPECIES.
—
Cicada gigas
Olivier 1790: 750
. (Java).
REMARKS.—The genus was recently reassigned to
Fidicinini
with the synonymy of the
Hyantiini (
Marshall
et al.
2018
)
. Only
Quesada
in the Ecuadorian
Fidicinini
have small timbal covers that recurve for only part of its length with an anterior triangular extension and do not cover the timbal. Specimens of
Quesada
can also be distinguished by the larger body size (body lengths greater than
30 mm
), the basal cell of the fore wing is only slightly longer than broad, the abdomen is about as long as the distance between the anterior head and posterior of the cruciform elevation, and the distal terminus of the pygofer angles medially.
DISTRIBUTION.—The two species of the genus have been reported from the Antilles,
Argentina
,
Belize
,
Bolivia
,
Brazil
,
Colombia
,
Costa Rica
,
Ecuador
,
El Salvador
, French Guiana,
Guatemala
,
Guyana
,
Honduras
,
Mexico
,
Nicaragua
,
Panama
,
Paraguay
,
Peru
,
Trinidad & Tobago
,
United States of America
,
Uruguay
,
Venezuela
, and the West Indies (
Metcalf 1963a
;
Duffels & van der Laan 1985
; Sanborn 2011b; 2013; 2014a; 2018c; 2019b; 2020b, e;
Sanborn & Heath 2012
; 2014; 2017;
Reis
et al.
2015
;
Maccagnan
et al.
2017
).