Zammara intricata Walker, 1850

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 : 13-14

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4880.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4426318

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE878C-FFF4-FFDD-FF3B-7505D57AFE1F

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scientific name

Zammara intricata Walker, 1850
status

 

Zammara intricata Walker, 1850 View in CoL

Zammara intricata Walker 1850: 35 View in CoL . (Guayaquil, Ecuador)

Zammara erna Schmidt 1919: 390 View in CoL . (Pucay, Ecuador) n. syn.

Orellana pulla Goding 1925: 25 View in CoL View Cited Treatment . (Milagro, Naranjapata, and Macas, Ecuador) n. syn.

Orellana brunneipennis Goding 1925: 27 View in CoL View Cited Treatment . (Rio Lliquino and Tenguel, Ecuador) n. syn.

Orellana brunnpennis View in CoL (sic) Goding 1925: 7 View Cited Treatment .

REMARKS.— Goemans (2016) demonstrated the Ecuadorian species Orellana brunneipennis and Orellana pulla belong in the genus Zammara rather than Orellana Distant, 1905b and that these species are junior synonyms of Z. intricata Walker, 1850 as is Z. erna . However, Goemans (2016) also disclaimed the nomenclatural acts within the work for nomenclatural purposes as recommended by the Code (ICZN 1999) and has yet to publish his work officially so that the synonymies are listed here as new.

This is one of the large species of Ecuadorian Zammara with body lengths between 25 and 36 mm ( Goemans 2016). Specimens can be distinguished by the more than 50% infuscation of the apical fore wing and the sinusoidal median crossvein of the fore wing. The only other species to have a sinusoidal median crossvein is Z. smaragdina Walker, 1850 but the infuscation pattern is more spotted and less than half the apical area of the fore wing is infuscated in that species ( Goemans 2016).

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported only from Ecuador ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2013; Goemans 2016). Goemans (2016) mapped the species over much of Ecuador, with a concentration of collection sites in the western portion of the country. Goemans (2016) also demonstrated the reported locality in Puerto Rico is erroneous. Goding (1925) reported the species from Guayaquil, many towns surrounding Guayaquil (as Z. intricata ), Milagro, and Tenegal (as O. brunneipennis ) in Guayas province, Naranjapata, Chimborazo province, Macas, Morona Santiago province (as O. pulla ), and Río Lliquino, Pastaza province.

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— “ Rio Palenque, ECUADOR / Los Rios Prov. - D. Dodson / XI – 15 –1972 ” two males and one female ( AFSC); “Ecuador // W. T. Davis / Collection” one male ( AFSC); “Playas / Ecuador / April1938 / Clark – McIntyre” three males and two females ( AFSC); “ G. Perez Franco, Col. / Guayaquil, Ecuador // ALLAN HANCOCK FOUNDATION / University of Southern / California No.” one male ( LACM), one male ( AFSC) .

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Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

LACM

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadidae

Genus

Zammara

Loc

Zammara intricata Walker, 1850

Sanborn, Allen F. 2020
2020
Loc

Orellana pulla

Goding, F. W. 1925: 25
1925
Loc

Orellana brunneipennis

Goding, F. W. 1925: 27
1925
Loc

Orellana brunnpennis

Goding, F. W. 1925: 7
1925
Loc

Zammara erna

Schmidt, E. 1919: 390
1919
Loc

Zammara intricata

Walker, F. 1850: 35
1850
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