Majeorona aper ( Walker, 1850 )

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Trinidad and Tobago including the description of three new species and seven new records, with new records for several additional Caribbean Islands, Zootaxa 4838 (4), pp. 535-565 : 543

Majeorona aper ( Walker, 1850) new record

Fidicina aper Walker 1850: 87 . (Cayenne, French Guiana)

Remarks. This is probably the largest Trinidadian cicada species with body lengths of about 48 mm and wing spans of more than 120 mm. The prominent, stylate eyes that are as wide as the pronotum and wider than the mesonotum, the flattened anterior postclypeus, the almost parallel lateral pronotal margins, lateral pronotal collar about as wide as dorsal pronotal collar, timbal covers concealing the ventral timbal, contrasting proximal wing venation, infuscation on the base of the wings, and infuscation on the fore wing medial and mediocubital crossveins easily distinguish it from Quesada gigas ( Olivier, 1790) . Fidicinoides descampsi can be distinguished by the infuscation along the ambient vein, distal apical cell veins, and connecting across all crossveins of the fore wings.

Distribution. The species has been reported previously from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Nicaragua, and Panama ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2018; 2020d; Maes et al. 2012; Sanborn & Maes 2012) with the range recently expanded to include Peru ( Sanborn 2020b). The first records for Trinidad and Grenada are provided below. These records suggest that the species will be reported from Venezuela eventually.

Material examined for new record for Trinidad. “ Bush Bush Is. / Trinidad /VII.29.63/ at light / Dr. Brooks/ Worth ” one female ( AFSC).

Material examined for new record for Grenada. “ WEST INDIES: Grenada/ Grand Etang Forest Res ./ 23 June 1998 /coll: L.P. Burgess ” one male ( UMRM) , one female ( AFSC).