The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-08-12
4655
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1
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journal article
26048
10.11646/zootaxa.4655.1.1
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Genus
Quesada
Distant, 1905c
Quesada
Distant 1905c: 478
.
TYPE
SPECIES.
Cicada gigas
Olivier 1790: 750
. (Java).
REMARKS. The genus was recently reassigned to
Fidicinini
with the synonymy of the
Hyantiini (
Marshall
et al.
2018
)
and is assigned to the
Guyalnina
here. Only
Quesada
in the Bolivian
Fidicinini
has small timbal covers that recurve at least partially and do not cover the timbal. This is one of the largest if not the largest Bolivian cicada (body lengths greater than
30 mm
). Species are characterized by a short, triangular head with prominent, laterally projecting eyes, a strongly arched pronotum with an irregularly serrated angled lateral margin, an abdomen about as long as the distance between the apex of the postclypeus and posterior cruciform elevation, the convex, translucent male sternites, with fore wings about three times as long as broad (
Distant 1905c
;
Sanborn & Heath 2017
).
DISTRIBUTION. The two species of the genus have been reported from the Antilles,
Argentina
,
Belize
,
Bolivia
,
Brazil
,
Colombia
,
Costa Rica
,
Ecuador
,
El Salvador
,
French Guiana
,
Guatemala
,
Guyana
,
Honduras
,
Mexico
,
Nicaragua
,
Panama
,
Paraguay
,
Peru
,
Trinidad & Tobago
,
United States of America
,
Uruguay
,
Venezuela
, and the West Indies (
Metcalf 1963a
;
Duffels & van der Laan 1985
; Sanborn 2011b; 2013; 2014a; 2018c;
Sanborn & Heath 2014
;
Reis
et al.
2015
;
Maccagnan
et al.
2017
).