Herrera Distant, 1905b

SANBORN, ALLEN F., 2020, Two new species of Neotropical cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae) from southeastern Brazi, Journal of Insect Biodiversity 19 (1), pp. 14-23 : 18

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Genus Herrera Distant, 1905b View in CoL

Herrera Distant 1905b: 486 View in CoL .

Type species. Cicada marginella Walker 1858: 21 View in CoL . (Orizaba, Vera Cruz, Mexico)

Remarks. Distant (1905b) distinguished species of the genus using the following characters: a head that is about as wide as the mesonotum with the vertex that is longer than the frons, a pronotum that is about as long as the mesonotum, the length of the abdomen that is about as long as the distance from the apex of the postclypeus to the posterior of the cruciform elevation, males possess small opercula, fore femora exhibit distinct spines, and a fore wing width that is slightly more than half the fore wing length. With the continued addition of species to the genus, the ratio of fore wing width to length has been shown to be as little as one-third in some species and there is a group of species, including the new species, whose opercula can cover the tympanal cavity. The diversity of the genus was more than doubled recently with the addition of multiple new species and the reassignment of several other species to the genus ( Sanborn 2019 a, 2019b, 2020 a, 2020b, 2020c, 2020d).

Distribution. The range of genus was restricted to Central America until Sanborn & Heath (2014) described new species from Argentina. The range has been expanded recently to include Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Peru and Venezuela ( Sanborn 2019 a, 2019b, 2020 a, 2020b). The genus has now been recorded from Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963; Sanborn 2013, 2014, 2019 a, 2019b, 2020 a, 2020b; Sanborn & Heath 2014) with recent range expansions to include Ecuador ( Sanborn 2020c) and Trinidad ( Sanborn 2020d). These specimens expand the range eastward from the currently known distribution.

References

Distant W. L. 1905 b. Rhynchotal notes XXXII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) 15: 478 - 486. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745480509442837

Metcalf Z. P. 1963. General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 2. Tibicinidae. North Carolina State College Contribution 1564: i - vi, 1 - 492.

Sanborn A. F. 2013. Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea). With contributions to the bibliography by Martin H. Villet. Elsevier / Academic Press, San Diego, 1001 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / b 978 - 0 - 12 - 416647 - 9.00001 - 2

Sanborn A. F. & Heath M. S. 2014. The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Zootaxa 3883 (1): 1 - 94. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3883.1.1

Sanborn A. F. 2014. Checklist of the cicadas (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Costa Rica including new records for fourteen species. Check List 10 (2): 246 - 252. https: // doi. org / 10.15560 / 10.2.246

Sanborn A. F. 2019 a. The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records. Zootaxa 4655 (1): 1 - 104. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4655.1.1

Sanborn A. F. 2019 b. Two new species of Neotropical cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae: Carinetini) from Bolivia. Journal of Insect Biodiversity 13 (2): 27 - 35. https: // doi. org / 10.12976 / jib / 2019.13.2.2

Sanborn A. F. 2020 a. Eight new species and three new records of Neotropical cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from Venezuela. Journal of Insect Biodiversity 13 (2): 27 - 35. https: // doi. org / 10.12976 / jib / 2019.13.2.2

Sanborn A. F. 2020 b. The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Peru including the descriptions of twenty-four new species, three new synonymies, and thirty-seven new records. Zootaxa 4785 (1): 1 - 129. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4675.1.1

Sanborn A. F. 2020 c. The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the descriptions of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records. Zootaxa: in press.

Sanborn A. F. 2020 d. 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: in press.

Walker F. 1858. List of the specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. British Museum Trustees, London, 307 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9063