Generic redescription, seven new species and a key to the Taphura Stål, 1862 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadetttinae: Taphurini)
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
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Zootaxa
2017
2017-09-28
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Taphura misella
(
Stål, 1854
)
Cicada misella
Stål 1854: 243
(type material in NHRS).
Cicada (Taphura) misella
Stål 1862a: 20
.
Thaphura
(sic)
misella
Stål 1870: 717
.
Taphura misella
Distant 1905a: 34
.
Type
locality.
Brazil
,
Minas Gerais
.
Remarks.
An oddity in the genus in the male genitalia are reduced.
Distribution.
The species is currently known from
Brazil
(
Metcalf 1963
;
Sanborn 2013
) and was recently recorded from
Argentina
(
Sanborn & Heath 2014
). The distribution of the species is expanded here to included
Bolivia
and
French Guiana
.
Material examined for new records.
“
Prov. del Sara
/
Bolivia
,
450 m
. /
J. Steinbach
// Nov. / 1909 // C. M. / Acc. 6549”
one female
(
CMNH
),
“
Prov. del Sara
/
Bolivia
,
450 m
. /
J. Steinbach
// Carn. Mus. / Acc. 6443”
one male
(
AFSC
);
“
FRENCH GUIANA
/
Réserve de la Trinité
,
zone Aya
/
N 4° 35' 20"
,
O 53° 18' 1"
,
Commune de / Saint Elie
,
06-XI-2013
/
Automatic Luminating trap
/
Soc. Ent. Antilles-Guyane
leg.” one
female
(
AFSC
);
“
FRENCH GUIANA
/
Montagne des Chevaux
, (forest on / quartzite),
N 4°44'31.54"
O 52°25'53.02"
/ altitude
90m
,
commune de Roura
/
27-IX-2010
,
Automatic Luminating
/
Trap with Gemlight
/
Soc. Ent. Antilles-Guyane
leg.” one
female
(
AFSC
);
“
FRENCH GUIANA
/
Montagne des Chevaux
, (forest on / quartzite),
N 4°44'31.54"
O 52°25'53.02"
/ altitude
90m
,
commune de Roura
/
07-XII-2013
,
Automatic Luminating
/
Trap with Gemlight
/
Soc. Ent. Antilles-Guyane
leg.” one
female
(
AFSC
);
“
FRENCH GUIANA
/
Montagne des Chevaux
, (forest on / quartzite),
N 4°44'31.54"
O 52°25'53.02"
/ altitude
90m
,
commune de Roura
/
03-II-2013
,
Automatic Luminating
/
Trap with Gemlight
/
Soc. Ent. Antilles-Guyane
leg.” one
female
(
AFSC
);
“
FRENCH GUIANA
/
Mont Matoury
,
N 4°51'31.00"
/
O 52°22'36.00"
commune de Matoury
/
28-IX-2014
/
Flight Interception Trap
/
Soc. Ent. Antilles- Guyane
leg.” one
male
(
AFSC
);
“
FRENCH GUIANA
/
Saül Pointe-de-Vue
, /
21-I-2016
/
Automatic Light Trap, Blue light
/
Soc. Ent. Antilles-Guyane
leg.”
one female
(
AFSC
).