The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-10-04
4493
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4493.1.1
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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
and
Mura
in the Panamanian
Fidicinini
have small timbal covers that recurve at least partially and do not cover the timbal. Specimens of
Quesada
can be distinguished from the species of
Mura
Distant, 1905a
by the much larger body size (body lengths greater than
30 mm
), a timbal cover that is recurved for only part of its length with an anterior triangular extension, 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 cruciform elevation, and the pygofer angles medially towards the distal terminus. The species emerges in the dry season during mid-February with emergence appearing to be dependent on soil moisture levels but is independent of when the last of the rains actually occurred (
Wolda 1984
).
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
;
2014
;
Sanborn & Heath 2014
;
Reis
et al.
2015
;
Maccagnan
et al.
2017
).