Tympanoterpes Stål, 1861

Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records, Zootaxa 4655 (1), pp. 1-104 : 21

Genus Tympanoterpes Stål, 1861 new record

Tympanoterpes Stål 1861: 614 .

TYPE SPECIES. C[icada] serricosta Germar 1834: 62 . ( Brazil)

REMARKS. The genus was erected, as were many genera of the time period, using a few general characteristics ( Stål 1861). The general nature of the description has meant that only three of the eight species Stål (1861) listed as belonging to the genus still remain in Tympanoterpes with species now represented by eight genera from three tribes that were at one time classified within Tympanoterpes ( Sanborn 2013) . Distant (1914) provided a slightly longer description than Stål (1861) incorporating the structures used by Stål. Using Distant’s (1906a; 1914) key, the following were used to distinguish the genus: metasternum with a moderately elevated transverse central plate, which is not anteriorly angularly produced, head including eyes about equal in width to base of mesonotum, eyes scarcely projecting beyond anterior angle of pronotum, vertex of head at area of ocelli often only very slightly longer than front, posterior angles of pronotum a little prominent, but not lobately produced, and fore wings with radial crossvein strongly oblique. The genus is in need of revision and a complete description.

DISTRIBUTION. Currently assigned species of the genus have been reported previously from Argentina, Brazil, Guyana, Uruguay, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2013; Sanborn & Heath 2014). This is the first record of the genus in Bolivia and Peru.