Dorisiana semilata ( Walker, 1850 )

Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), Zootaxa 3883 (1), pp. 1-94 : 61-62

Dorisiana semilata ( Walker, 1850)

Cicada semilata Walker 1850: 122 (type material examined).

Cicada passer Walker 1850: 124 .

Cicada brizo Walker 1850: 125 .

Cicada melisa Walker 1850: 127 .

Cicada melina Walker 1850: 128 .

Cicada panyases Walker 1850: 133 .

Cicada pidytes Walker 1850: 134 .

Cicada physcoa Walker 1850: 135 .

Cicada braure Walker 1850: 136 .

Cicada solennis Walker 1850: 143 .

Type locality. St. Lucia ( Antilles ), Cayenne ( French Guiana).

Remarks. The species was reported previously from a wide geographic range. Records for the species have been published for Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela ( Walker 1850; Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2010a; 2011b). We collected specimens in Chaco Province. The species was collected in the Paranense and Chaco floristic provinces ( Sanborn et al. 2011a).

New provincial records. Chaco, Dto. Cmte. Fernandez, 3 km E. of Pres. Roque Saenz Peña, 8-I-1988, Al Sanborn Coll. (1 male, MSHC); Chaco, Dto. Cmte. Fernandez, 3 km E. of Pres. Roque Saenz Peña, 8-I-1988, F. Noriega coll. (1 male, MSHC).