Chonosia papa ( Berg, 1882 ), 2014

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 : 82-83

Chonosia papa ( Berg, 1882) rev. stat.

Tettigades papa Berg 1882: 38 (type material examined).

Type locality. Mendoza, Argentina.

Remarks. The species was considered a junior synonym of C. crassipennis by Distant (1906b). However, the species differs from C. crassipennis in several ways. The opercula of C. papa are larger with a medial margin smoothly arching towards the midline beyond the medial meracanthus while the opercula of C. crassipennis are more angulate on the medial margin and does not extend medially to the meracanthus; the uncus of C. papa is more stout along with a larger basal lobe of the pygofer and longer anal styles. Females are distinguished by the notch on the posterior of sternite VII which has parallel sides posteriorly with a circular anterior terminus in C. papa and expands anteriorly into a tear-drop shape in C. crassipennis . Chonosia papa also has a more southerly distribution with examples being reported from Chubut and Mendoza Provinces ( Berg 1882; Breddin 1897). We collected our examples in Mendoza Province. The species is associated with the Monte floristic province ( Sanborn et al. 2011a).