Proarna Stål, 1864

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 : 22

Genus Proarna Stål, 1864

Proarna Stål 1864: 61 .

TYPE SPECIES.— Cicada hilaris Germar 1834: 69 . ( Australia?)

REMARKS.—The species of Proarna can be identified by a head that is about as wide as the mesonotum with the eyes that scarcely project beyond the anterior pronotal angle, the fore wing radial crossvein is oriented vertically to the radius anterior 2 and radius posterior veins and the radiomedial crossvein is obliquely oriented, males possess large semicircular opercula, and the triangular or small, curved timbal covers.

DISTRIBUTION.—Species of the genus have been reported across the Neotropical region with records from Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, and multiple islands in the West Indies ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2014a; 2018c; 2019b; 2020b, d, e; Sanborn & Maes 2012; Maes et al. 2012; Sanborn & Heath 2014).