The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) of Madagascar including a new tribe, five new genera, twelve new species, four new species synonymies, five revised species status, ten new combinations, new tribal assignments for four genera, one new subtribe synonymy, a checklist and key to the species
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-02-24
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journal article
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Jafuna melichari
Distant, 1912b
Jafuna melichari
Distant 1912b: 648
. (Tamatave,
Madagascar
)
Remarks.—The single species is small (body length about
16 mm
, wingspan about
42 mm
), greenish, with an extended anterior postclypeus, a distinctive piceous foveate mesonotal spot anterior to anterior arms of cruciform elevation, apices of tibiae and tarsi red (
Distant 1912b
). The generic characters can also be used to distinguish the species.
Distribution.—The species is known only from
Madagascar
(
Metcalf 1963b
).
Jacobi (1917)
reported the species from Tamatave, western
Madagascar
.
Material
examined.—“
Madagascar
:
Toliara Prov.
/
Forêt de Kirindy
,
15.5 km
64º / ENE Marofandilia, elev
100m
/
20º 2’ 42”S
44º 39’ 44” E
/
28 Nov.—3 Dec. 2001
// coll: Fisher, Griswold et al. /
California Acad. of Sciences
/ at light—in tropical dry forest / collection code: BLF4601 // CASENT / 3004614” one female (
AFSC
)
.