Guyalna cuta ( 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 : 66

Guyalna cuta ( Walker, 1850)

Cicada cuta Walker 1850: 139 (type material examined).

Cicada lucastia Walker 1850: 140 (type material examined).

Type locality. The type specimen was described from an unknown locality.

Remarks. The species has been reported from Argentina, Brazil, and French Guiana ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2011b; Sanborn et al. 2011a). We collected specimens in Catamarca, Salta, and Tucumán Provinces. The species was collected in the Yunga, Paranense, Chaco, and Espinal floristic provinces ( Sanborn et al. 2011a).

New provincial records. Catamarca, 1 km N La Vina, 4-I-1987, M.S. Heath & F. Noriega Coll. (one male, one female, MSHC); Catamarca, 1 km N La Vina, 4-I-1987, F. Noriega & M.S. Heath Coll. (one female, MSHC); Salta, Professor Salvador Mazza ( Est. Pocitos ), 11-I-1988, J.E. Heath Coll. Taken from Mantis (one female, MSHC); Salta, Prof. Salvador Mazza ( Est. Pocitos ), 11-I-1988, Heath-Sanborn-Noriega Coll. (one male, MSHC); Salta, Rt 5— 5 km N.E. of intersection with Rt. 20, 21-XII-1986, F. Noriega Coll. (one female, MSHC); Salta, 9 km S split Rts 9 & 34, 19-XII-1986, F. Noriega Coll. (one male, MSHC); Salta, 4 km N Pinchanal, 11-I-1988, Heath- Sanborn-Noriega Coll. (one female, MSHC); Prov. Salta, Ruta 16 , 5 km West of El Bordo, 11-I-1992, A. Sanborn Coll. (four males, two females, AFSC); Tucuman, 8 km N Tapia, 18-XII-1986, M.S. Heath Coll., EX: Prosopis (one male, MSHC); Tucuman, La Madrid , 16-XII-1986, M.S. Heath Coll., Ex. Riparian Habitat (one male, AFSC); Tucuman, La Madrid , 16-XII-1986, F. Noriega Coll., EX: Riparian habit (one male, MSHC); Tucuman, 17 km N Tucuman, 31-XII-1986, F. Noriega & Al Sanborn Coll. (one female, MSHC); Tucuman, 8 km No. of Tapia, 18- XII-1986, M.S. Heath Coll., EX: Prosopis (one male, MSHC).