Toulgoetalna Boulard, 1982

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the description of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records, Zootaxa 4880 (1), pp. 1-80 : 66

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4880.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4573919
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scientific name	Toulgoetalna Boulard, 1982
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Genus Toulgoetalna Boulard, 1982 View in CoL new record

Toulgoetalna Boulard 1982: 179 View in CoL .

TYPE SPECIES.— Toulgoetalna tavakiliani Boulard 1982: 181 View in CoL . ( Montagne Tortue , French Guiana)

REMARKS.—Males of the genus are easy to distinguish by the significant constriction of the anterior abdominal segments with segment 5 being the widest. The males also have large opercula that can be seen from the dorsal side due to the constriction of the base of the abdomen.

DISTRIBUTION.—The genus has been recorded previously from French Guiana (Sanborn 2011a; 2013). This is the first record of the genus for Ecuador.