Cicada collaris Degeer, 1773

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Suriname including the description of two new species, five new combinations, and three new records, Zootaxa 4881 (3), pp. 453-481 : 473-474

Cicada collaris Degeer, 1773

Cicada collaris Degeer 1773: 226 , Pl. 33, Figs. 12–13. ( Dutch Guiana)

[ Cicada] collaris Goeze 1778: 160 .

Cicada collaris Goeze 1780: 146 , Pl. 33, Fig. 12.

Cicada collaris Stoll 1781: 27 , Pl. V, Figs. 26, B.

C[icada] collaris Retzius 1783: 83 .

[ Cicada collaris ] Stoll 1788: 33, Pl. V, Figs. 25–26.

[ Cicada] collaris Gmelin 1789: 2116 .

Cicada collaris Stoll 1792: 27 , Pl. V, Figs. 26, B.

[ Cicada] collaris Turton 1806: 602 .

Cicada collaris Metcalf 1963b: 824 .

Remarks. The image in Degeer (1773), Goeze (1780), and Stoll (1781, 1788, 1792) suggest the taxon has been applied to more than one species. Degeer (1773), Goeze (1778; 1780), and Turton (1806) describe an animal with a tawny-yellow thorax with a pale red band. The images in Degeer (1773), Goeze (1780), and Stoll (1781, 1788, 1792) show what appears to be a species of Cicadellidae Latreille, 1825 . The image and description are similar to Alocha lugubris ( Young, 1977) ( Cicadellidae : Cicadellinae : Cicadellini ). Based on the similarities in the description and images, Cicada collaris Degeer, 1773 is reassigned here to become Alocha collaris ( Degeer, 1773) n. comb. Someone more familiar with the group can determine the possibility that Degeer’s and Young’s species are synonyms.

Distribution. The species has been reported from Dutch Guiana and Suriname ( Metcalf 1963b).