Hemisciera maculipennis ( de Laporte, 1832 )

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 : 28

Hemisciera maculipennis ( de Laporte, 1832)

Cicada maculipennis de Laporte 1832: 412 . ( French Guiana and Brazil)

Cicada versicolor Brullé 1835 (in Audouin & Brullé): Plate v, Fig. 1 .

Cicada sumptuosa Blanchard 1840: 165 .

Fidicina floslofia Walker 1858a: 15 . (Ega, Brazil)

Hemisciera pictipennis (sic) Goding 1925: 5 .

REMARKS.—The species is a medium sized (body length 31–34 mm) species with a piceous and brown body. The bright green basal area of the fore wings and bright red basal area of the hind wings make the species very easy to identify.

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Panama, and Peru ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2018c; 2019b; 2020b; Sanborn & Heath 2014). Goding (1925) reported the species from Macas, Morona Santiago province.

Figures

FIG. 1. Durangona exechopyga n. sp.: A, holotype male and paratype female habitus; B, holotype male dorsum; C, holotype male timbal; D, holotype male operculum; E, paratype female operculum; F, holotype male lateral view of genitalia; G, holotype male posterior view of genitalia; H, paratype female lateral view of genitalia; I, paratype female ventral view of genitalia. Scale bar: A, 2 cm; B, 5 mm; C–E, 2 mm; F–G, 1 mm; H–I, 2 mm.