Toulgoetalna tavakiliani Boulard, 1982

Sanborn, Allen F., 2011, Checklist of the cicadas of French Guiana including new records and the description of nine new species (Insecta, Hemiptera, Cicadoidea, Cicadidae), Zoosystema 33 (3), pp. 377-418 : 402

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2011n3a6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7671583
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scientific name	Toulgoetalna tavakiliani Boulard, 1982
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Toulgoetalna tavakiliani Boulard, 1982 View in CoL

Toulgoetalna tavakiliani Boulard, 1982: 181 View in CoL .

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: French Guiana. Saül, 6.IV.1978, Porion réc., H. de Toulgoët lég., 1 ♂ ( MNHN ( EH)6351).

Paratypes: French Guiana. Montagne Tortue, 24.VIII.81, G. Tavakilian réc. et lég., 2 ♂♂ ( MNHN ( EH)6349, MNHN ( EH)6350).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — “ GUYANE FRANÇAISE / Piste CORALIE PK 11 / 14 avril 1993 / Piège lumineux”, 2 ♂♂ ( AFSC). — “ GUYANE FRANÇAISE / Mont ITOUPÉ / DZ 570 m / 10 mars 2010 / Piège lumineux”, 1 ♀ ( MTC).

NOTE. — M. Thouvenot collected a female of this species, which appears to be the first known example of a female. The female abdomen does not constrict at the junction with the thorax as it does in the male. The female operculum is green, arched off of the abdominal sternites with a smoothly curved posterior margin extending over the anterior third of sternite II. Female sternite VII has a deep, rounded, single notch rounded laterally, the posterior margin approximates a sine wave. Abdominal segment 9 is green. The gonocoxite IX is green with fuscous spots near base on either side of castaneous gonapophysis VII. Fuscous ovipositor sheath extends beyond the dorsal beak.

DISTRIBUTION. — The species has been reported only from French Guiana ( Boulard 1982, 1990, 2002).