The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) of Madagascar including a new tribe, five new genera, twelve new species, four new species synonymies, five revised species status, ten new combinations, new tribal assignments for four genera, one new subtribe synonymy, a checklist and key to the species
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-02-24
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journal article
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Pycna strix
Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843
Pycna strix
Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 463
. (
Madagascar
)
Remarks.—The third of three species with a body length less than
37 mm
and wingspan greater than
110 mm
. Body length is about
35 mm
, wingspan about
117–120 mm
(
Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843
;
Karsch 1890
). It can be distinguished further from
P. gigas
and
P. rudis
by the piceous spot on the posterior of the lateral sigillae and the ground color cruciform elevation.
Distribution.—The species is only known from
Madagascar
(
Metcalf 1963a
;
Duffels & van der Laan 1985
;
Sanborn 2013
; 2020).
Tribe
Macrotristriini Moulds, 2018
(in
Marshall
et al
.
2018b)
Macrotristriini Moulds 2018
(in
Marshall
et al
. 2018b
): 44.
Remarks.—The tribe was recently erected based on a five gene phylogenetic tree to incorporate two Australian genera, one of which includes a species from
Madagascar
(
Marshall
et al
. 2018b
). Species of the tribe can be distinguished from other
Cicadinae
by possessing a head with an elongated vertex so that the distance between the eye and supra-antennal plate is much longer than the length of the supra-antennal plate, male timbal covers are flat and reach the metathorax anteriorly but are a little reduced dorsally, and theca with one or two subapical theca (Marshall
et al
. 2018).