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
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-11-17
4880
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4880.1.1
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1175-5326
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Pachypsaltria phaedima
Torres, 1960
Pachypsaltria phaedima
Torres 1960: 235
.
(Quito,
Ecuador
)
REMARKS.—This species can be distinguished from the other Ecuadorian species by its intermediate body size (body length about
31.5 mm
, wingspan about
114 mm
), the rounded apex of the postclypeus when viewed from the dorsal side, and the fore wing radial crossvein being separated from the radiomedial crossvein by less than twice the length of the radial crossvein (
Torres 1960
).
DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported from
Brazil
and
Ecuador
(
Duffels & van der Laan 1985
). It has been reported from Quito,
Pichincha province
(
Torres 1960
).