Plautilla stalagmoptera Stål, 1865

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 stalagmoptera Stål, 1865

Plautilla stalagmoptera Stål 1865: 155 . (Quito, Ecuador)

REMARKS.—The species is distinguished by its more triangular opercula with rounded apex, opercula marked with piceous distally but not on proximal medial and lateral margins, and the wider pronotum when compared to P. hammondi . The timbal cover is piceous. This species can be distinguished quickly from P. venedictoffae Boulard, 1978 by the lighter infuscation of the fore wing veins in that species.

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported only from Ecuador ( Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2013). The species has been recorded from Quito, Pichincha province ( Stål 1865; Jacobi 1907a; Goding 1925).

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— “ ECUADOR, Nanegal / Maquipucuna Reserve / 21 MVII 1990 1200m / P Richerson ” one male ( AFSC).