The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae)
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
Department of Biology, Barry University, 11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami Shores, FL 33161 - 6695, USA
asanborn@barry.edu
Author
Heath, Maxine S.
104 Hummingbird Circle, Buchanan Dam, TX 78609, USA
maxine@txwinet.com
text
Zootaxa
2014
2014-11-11
3883
1
1
94
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1
1175-5326
4951252
48A4C0DF-00B7-45C6-8D10-5BFE40A251EE
Proarna insignis
Distant, 1881
Proarna albida insignis
Distant 1881: 12
(
type
material examined).
Type
locality
.
Nicaragua
and
Panama
.
Remarks
. The species is restricted to the grasslands of the cloud forest habitat in
Argentina
(
Sanborn
et al.
1995b
; 2011a). The species was recorded from
Argentina
,
Brazil
,
Colombia
,
Ecuador
, French Guiana,
Guatemala
,
Honduras
,
Mexico
,
Nicaragua
,
Panama
,
Peru
, and
Venezuela
(
Metcalf 1963a
;
Sanborn 2006a
;
2007a
;
2007b
;
2010a
; 2011b). We collected specimens in Salta Province. The species is associated with the clearings in the cloud forests of the Yunga floristic province (
Sanborn
et al.
2011a
).
New provincial records.
Salta
,
3.5 km
So. of Grl. Enrique Mosconi
,
10-I-1988
, Heath-Sanborn-Noriega Coll. (
12 males
,
eight females
,
MSHC
,
one male
,
one female
,
AFSC
)
;