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 text Zootaxa 2020 2020-11-17 4880 1 1 80 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4880.1.1 50f2ef69-fec5-45e5-8005-623e2cb991dc 1175-5326 4425522 33BE91BC-DC0F-4CBB-85AB-CA7BF1891C0C Taphura hastifera ( Walker, 1858a ) Cicada hastifera Walker 1858a: 25 . (Santarém, Pará, Brazil ) Cicada frontalis Walker 1858a: 25 . (Pará, Brazil ) REMARKS.—A wide ranging species that is often common in collections. The claspers diverge laterally from their base and form a claw-like terminus and the basal pygofer lobes are reduced. The abdominal tergites lack the anterior transverse piceous mark in T. hastifera that is found in T. crispula . The transverse mark in the pronotal ambient fissure is a single mark in T. hastifera but split into three parts in T. sauliensis whose claspers bifurcate at the terminus rather than being claw-like ( Sanborn 2017a ). DISTRIBUTION.—This is a species that ranges over much of South America. It is currently known from Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Ecuador , Panama , Peru , and Venezuela (Metcalf 1963; Sanborn 2013; 2017a; 2018c; 2019b; 2020b; Sanborn & Heath 2014 ). The species is known from Nap province in Ecuador ( Sanborn 2017a ) MATERIAL EXAMINED .— “ ECUADOR : Napo / Prov. 25km .e.Puerto / Napo, 450m . ix–1997 // B.&B. Valentin coll. // Jatun Sacha / Bio/ Reserve / u-v light // Valentine / Coll’n / Rec. 2016” seven males and six females ( FSCA ), one male and one female ( AFSC ); “ ECUADOR : Napo Province / Misahualli Jungle Lodge area , jct. of / Rio Napo & Rio Misahualli , 1650- / 1900’ elev. S 1º 2’ 4.2” , W 77º 39’ / 49.2”, 5–12:IX:1998. C. & K. / Messenger ” nine males and three females ( UNSM ), one female ( AFSC ); “ ECUADOR : Napo Prov. / Jatun Sacha Biological Station / 77º 37’ W , 1º 04’ S , VII–24–26–1998 / lowland rainforest , 450 m / Ratcliffe , Jameson , Smith , Villatoro ” eleven males ( UNSM ), one male ( AFSC ); “ ECUADOR : Napo Province / Misahualli Jungle Lodge area , jct. of / Rio Napo & Rio Misahualli , 1650– / 1900’ elev. S 1º 2’ 4.2” , W 77º 39’ / 49.2”, 13–20:IX:1998. C. & K. / Messenger ” four males and one female ( UNSM ); “ ECUADOR : Prov. Napo / vic. Puerto Misahualli , / 1650– 1900’ ft., 6–19–IX– / 1998 J.E. Eger , coll. // 1º 2’ 4.2” S lat. / 77º 39’ 49.2” W lon. / Mercury vapor & / Ultraviolet lights ” one female ( AFSC ); “ ECUADOR : Napo Prov. / Misahualli / 7 January 1989 / coll: B. A. Baugh / mercury vapor light ” one male and one female ( UMRM ); “ ECUADOR / Misahualli / ~ 350 m / 8–18 October 2001 / Mark Churchill coll.” one male and two females ( MSUC ).