The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) of Madagascar including a new tribe, five new genera, twelve new species, four new species synonymies, five revised species status, ten new combinations, new tribal assignments for four genera, one new subtribe synonymy, a checklist and key to the species
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-02-24
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Orientafroinsularis nigrans
(
Distant, 1904c
)
n. comb.
Cicada
nigrans
Distant 1904c: 673
. (Fort Dauphin, southern
Madagascar
)
Remarks.—A piceous species marked with testaceous with a body length of
27 mm
and a wingspan of
75–78 mm
(
Distant 1904c
). The primarily piceous body with the fore wing infuscation on the radial, radiomedial, and medial crossveins and the distal veins between the apical cells quickly distinguish the species.
Distribution.—The species is known only from
Madagascar
(
Metcalf 1963a
;
Sanborn 2013
).
Distant (1904c)
and
Jacobi (1917)
reported the species from Fort Dauphin, southern
Madagascar