The cicada genus Guyalna Boulard & Martinelli, 1996 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Fidicinini): generic description, twelve new combinations, and a key to species
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
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Zootaxa
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Guyalna bonaerensis
(
Berg, 1879
)
(
Fig. 5
)
Fidicina bonaërensis
Berg 1879: 140
.
Dorisia bonaerensis
Delétang 1919: 38
.
Dorisia bonaerensis
var.
bergi
nom. nud.
Delétang 1919: 85
.
Dorisia bonaerensis
var.
dominiquei
nom. nud.
Delétang 1919: 85
.
Dorisiana bonaerensis
Metcalf 1952: 229
Dorisiana
nom. nov. pro
Dorisia
Delétang, 1919
nec
Dorisia
Moeschler, 1883
(
Dorisiana
replacement name for preoccupied
Dorisia
so all cicada species transferred to
Dorisiana
although none listed individually in
Metcalf (1952))
.
Guyalna bonaerensis
Boulard & Martinelli 1996: 20
.
Type
locality.
Buenos Aires
,
Santa Fé and Entre Rios Provinces,
Argentina
and
Uruguay
.
Remarks.
The
type
species of
Guyalna
(
Boulard & Martinelli 1996
)
, the species has an expanded timbal cover (
Fig. 5
) covering most of the timbal cavity. It can be found in large numbers in the Chaco and Espinal floristic provinces in
Argentina
(
Sanborn
et al.
2011
;
Sanborn & Heath 2014
). It has a similar morphology to
G. flavipronotum
n. comb
.
There may be related yet undiscovered species between the known distributions of these species. Body length
29–37 mm
, fore wing length
37–43 mm
.
Distribution.
The species has been reported previously from
Argentina
,
Brazil
, and
Paraguay
(
Metcalf 1963
;
Duffels & van der Laan 1985
;
Sanborn 2011b
;
2013
;
Sanborn & Heath 2014
).