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).