Nosola paradoxa Stål, 1866b

Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, 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, Zootaxa 4655 (1), pp. 1-104 : 47

Nosola paradoxa Stål, 1866b

Nosola paradoxa Stål 1866b: 171 . ( Bolivia)

REMARKS. The expanded proximal costal margin forms an arc bringing the leading edge of the fore wing almost to the apex of the postclypeus. No other cicada has this feature making the species easy to distinguish.

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported from Argentina and Bolivia ( Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn & Heath 2014).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. “Boliv. // Guérin. // Typus // paradoxa Stål // NHRS-GULI000065262” holotype male ( NHRS) ; “ BOLIVIA: Prov. Andrés Ibáñez / Dept. de Santa Cruz, 1,369 ft. / Potrerillos del Guenda / W. of Santa Cruz // Dec. 13/15, 2009 at MV & BL / S-17.67089º/W-63.45761º / N.J. Smith, A.J. Gilbert, & / J. Aramayo Bejarano ” one male ( UCDC) ; “ BOLIVIA, Santa Cruz / Andres Ibanez Prov. / Portrerillo del Guenda / 6–8 December 2011 // 17º 40 S 63º 20 W / Wappes , Lingafelter / Morris & Woodley” one male ( FSCA) ; “ BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz / 3km. N. Buena Vista / 430m, Flora & Fauna / Hotel , 31–X–1999 / C. Porter & L. Strange / Trop. Transition / Forest ” two males ( AFSC) ; “ BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz / 5 km SSE Buena Vista / Hotel Flora & Fauna 440m / W63º39.128’ S17º29.925’ / 10–22–X–2004, J.E. Eger // Coll . at UV, MV and / Incandescent Lights ” two males and two females ( AFSC) ; “ BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz / 4 km SSE Buena Vista / Flora & Fauna Hotel / November 2003 / R. Morris ” one female ( AFSC) ; “ Prov. del Sara / Bol Steinbach” / C M Acc 5064 // Dec 1911 ” one male ( CMNH), one female ( AFSC) ; “ Prov. del Sara / Bolivia, 450 m. / J. Steinbach ” // Carn. Mus. / Acc. 6443.” 22 males and six females ( CMNH), three males and two females ( AFSC) ; “Sta. Cruz de / la Sierra, Bol. / 450 m. / J. Steinbach ” // Nov. 1910 // C. M. Acc. 4549” one female ( CMNH); “ Prov. del Sara / Bolivia, 450 m. / J. Steinbach ” // Nov 1909 // Carn. Mus. Acc. 4549” two males ( CMNH).