Plautilla hammondi Distant, 1914

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 : 16

Plautilla hammondi Distant, 1914

Plautilla hammondi Distant 1914: 185 . (Mindo, Ecuador)

REMARKS.—The species is distinguished by its large, narrowed and obtusely angled opercula, opercula broadly marked with piceous distally as well as on the medial and lateral margins, and the more narrow pronotum when compared to P. stalagmoptera Stål, 1865 ( Distant 1914) . The timbal cover is piceous basally and ochraceous distally. This species can be distinguished quickly from P. venedictoffae Boulard, 1978 by the lighter infuscation of the fore wing veins.

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported from Ecuador and Colombia ( Metcalf 1963c; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2013). The species has been reported from Mindo, Pichincha province ( Distant 1914).

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— “ Mashi / Prov. Pichincha / Equateur 03–06–2019 ” two males ( DECS); “ ECUADOR: Pichincha Prov. / Tinlandia; 12 km. E. Sto. / Domingo de los Colorados. / ca. 2500 ft., 11–17–V–1986. / J. E. Eger, coll.” one male ( AFSC); “Nanegalito, / Ecuador / XI 20 1956 // R. W. Portman / Collector” one male ( AFSC) .