Selymbria stigmatica ( Germar, 1834 )

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 : 71

Selymbria stigmatica ( Germar, 1834)

C[icada] signifera Germar 1830: 44 . ( Brazil)

C[icada] stigmatica nom. nov. pro Cicada signifera Germar 1830: 44 nec Cicada signifera Germar 1830: 43 Germar 1834: 63 . ( Brazil)

C[icada] macropthalama Stål 1854: 242 . ( Brazil)

REMARKS.—The status of the species was recently clarified ( Sanborn 2019a). The holotype male of Cicada signifera is in the Germar collection housed at the ZMD (specimen number 1259) (http://zoomus.lviv.ua/en/germar_collection/; Shydlovskyy & Holovachov 2005) and the holotype of Cicada macropthalama is in the Stål collection at the NHRS. The holotype of Cicada macropthalama is reported to have a body length of 20 mm ( Stål, 1854). The virtual image is useful in distinguishing the species from the remaining species of the genus including S. ecuadorensis .

DISTRIBUTION.—The species is currently known only from Brazil ( Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2013; 2019a). References to Ecuador, Panama and Peru were shown to be erroneous ( Sanborn 2018c; 2019a) and misidentifications of what are distinct species.