Majeorona truncata Goding, 1925

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 : 33

Majeorona truncata Goding, 1925

Majeorona truncata Goding 1925: 22 . (Posorja, Ecuador)

REMARKS.—This is the smallest of the Ecuadorian species of Majeorona with a body length about 28 mm and a wing span of less than 80 mm. The green head and thorax are marked with and the abdomen is piceous, the postclypeus does not extend anteriorly beyond the supra-antennal plates when viewed from the dorsal side, and the lack of infuscation on the fore wing radial and radiomedial crossveins easily distinguish it from the remaining Ecuadorian Majeorona species.

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has previously been reported from Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2014a; 2018c; Sanborn & Maes 2012; Maes et al. 2012) with recent records reported for Peru ( Sanborn (2020b). Goding (1925) reported the species from Posorja, Guayas province.

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— “ ECUADOR; Provincia / de Francisco de Orellana / Yasuni National Park / road to station / 26–IV–2005; CRBartlett / N Nazdrowicz, D Chang ” one male ( AFSC); “ Rio Palenque , ECUADOR / Los Rios Prov. - D. Dodson / 1975” one male ( AFSC); “ Piedrero , ECUADOR / 20 FEB. 1969 / M. Deyrup ” one female ( AFSC); “ ECUADOR: Napo Prov. / Estación Cientifica Yasunì / 00º 40’ 28”S, 76º 38’50”W / IX–5–10–1999, UV light / Coll. E.G. Riley, 215 m.” one male ( AFSC); “ Cicada Species / Family Cicadidae / Ecuador / Sucombios Prv / Zabalo River / 27–30 Mar 2001 / Coll: D.O. Beaver // Habitat; night light / (incandescent) / Coll Meth: hand net // Specimen from the / David Beaver Collection / Donated to MSU/ARC / March 2009 ” one female ( MSUC).