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 Genus Proarna Stål, 1864 Proarna Stål 1864: 61 . TYPE SPECIES.— Cicada hilaris Germar 1834: 69 . ( Australia ?) REMARKS.—The species of Proarna can be identified by a head that is about as wide as the mesonotum with the eyes that scarcely project beyond the anterior pronotal angle, the fore wing radial crossvein is oriented vertically to the radius anterior 2 and radius posterior veins and the radiomedial crossvein is obliquely oriented, males possess large semicircular opercula, and the triangular or small, curved timbal covers. DISTRIBUTION.—Species of the genus have been reported across the Neotropical region with records from Argentina , Belize , Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Costa Rica , Cuba , Dominica , Dominican Republic , Ecuador , French Guiana, Guatemala , Guyana , Honduras , Jamaica , Mexico , Nicaragua , Panama , Paraguay , Peru , Puerto Rico , Suriname , Trinidad & Tobago , Uruguay , Venezuela , and multiple islands in the West Indies ( Metcalf 1963a ; Duffels & van der Laan 1985 ; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2014a; 2018c; 2019b; 2020b, d, e; Sanborn & Maes 2012 ; Maes et al. 2012 ; Sanborn & Heath 2014 ).