The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Uruguay with a key to known species and comments on species of the genus Acanthoventris Ruschel including the resurrection of a previously synonymized species Author Sanborn, Allen F. text Zootaxa 2024 2024-01-15 5399 4 301 326 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5399.4.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.4.1 1175-5326 10517001 10B485BB-349D-4B29-85BD-BCC36CD47BF6 Genus Acanthoventris Ruschel (in Ruschel et al . ), 2023 Type species. Cicada drewseni Stål 1854 ( Minas Gerais , Brazil ). Remarks. Ruschel et al . (2023) identified specimens of the genus from French Guiana , Brazil , and Peru . In addition to these records, there are also records of what had been considered the type species reported from Argentina , Paraguay and Uruguay ( Metcalf 1963a ; Ruffinelli 1970 ; Sanborn 2011b , 2013 ; Sanborn & Heath 2014 ). These specimens are shown below to represent some of the new species described in Ruschel et al . (2023) and the only previously synonymized species that is resurrected here.