The Cicadas of Florida (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae)
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
Author
Phillips, Polly K.
Author
Gilllis, Philip
text
Zootaxa
2008
1916
1
43
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.274559
95be8ece-0676-4e15-872e-05801c9edf88
1175-5326
274559
Diceroprocta
Stål 1870
: 714
.
Type
species:
Cicada alacris
Stål.
There are 20 species and four subspecies of
Diceroprocta
in North
America
north of
Mexico
(Sanborn and Heath in preparation) but the genus is well represented in
Mexico
and Central
America
(
Metcalf 1963a
;
Sanborn 2001
;
Sanborn 2006
; Sanborn 2007). Davis (1927) provided a key to the species known at the time. Three species occur in Florida.
The genus is named for the acutely pointed lateral lobes of the male pygofer (fig. 5). Males also possess a bifurcated uncus shaped like a wishbone (fig. 6), a pygofer which lacks a dorsal beak, and complete timbal covers (fig. 3). The radial crossvein in the tegmina arises near the middle of apical cell 3 (fig. 1). Although the sinuous posterior margin of the female sternite VII (fig. 9) is one of the original characteristics cited by
Stål (1870)
, they may be reduced in
D. olympusa
so that the plate appears smoothly bilobed (fig. 24).