Majeorona bovilla Distant, 1905d

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Peru including the description of twenty-four new species, three new synonymies, and thirty-seven new records, Zootaxa 4785 (1), pp. 1-129 : 44-45

Majeorona bovilla Distant, 1905d

Majeorona bovilla Distant 1905d: 318 . (Chapada, 2600 feet, Central Brazil)

REMARKS. This is the largest of the Majeorona species (body length about 48–50 mm and wing span about 135 mm) and will rival Quesada gigas ( Olivier, 1790) for the largest of the Peruvian cicadas. It can be distinguished from M. aper by the dark brown and piceous coloration of that species, from M. ecuatoriana by the infuscation on the distal apical cell veins and ambient veins of the wings in that species, and the much smaller body size and lack of infuscation on the radial and radiomedial crossveins of the forewings of M. truncata Goding, 1925 .

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported from Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Peru ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2013; 2014a). Pogue (1996) reported the species from Pakitza and Tambopata.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. “ PERU Madre de Dios / nr Puerto Maldonado / Posadas Amazonas / lodge@Rio Tambopata / S12 48.115 W69 18.019 / 609ft; (7–10)- X-2004 / C R Bartlett ” one female ( AFSC); “ PERU: Pucallpa , / Loreto / 1 August 1962 / W. T. Van Velzen ” one male ( AFSC); “ PERU: / Loreto, Pucallpa / Yarinacocha / 28 July 1962 / W. T. Van Velzen ” one male ( AFSC); “ PERU: / Loreto, Pucallpa / Yarinacocha / 2 August 1962 / W. T. Van Velzen ” one male ( AFSC); PERU, Pto. / Maldonado / Oct. 14, 1983 / C.V. Covell, Jr.” one male ( AFSC).