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Viettelana griveaudi Boulard 1980
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Viettelana griveaudi Boulard, 1980a
Viettelana griveaudi Boulard 1980a: 106. (Parc de Tsimbazaza, Tananarive, Central Madagascar)
Remarks.—The only species of the genus is green with a brown fascia and silver pubescence on the lateral abdomen. It can be distinguished by the generic characters particularly the globular, anteriorly angled eyes and small opercula, as well as the infuscation on the fore wing crossveins and distal veins between the apical cells. Body length is about 23 mm and wingspan is about 68 mm (Boulard 1980a).
Distribution.—The species is known only from Madagascar (Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2013).
Notes
Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2021, 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, pp. 1-79 in Zootaxa 4937 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4937.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4559438
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Genus
- Viettelana
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Boulard
- Species
- griveaudi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Viettelana griveaudi Boulard, 1980 sec. Sanborn, 2021
References
- Boulard, M. (1980 a) Genres nouveaux, especes nouvelles de cigales malgaches. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 85, 105 - 110.
- Duffels, J. P. & van der Laan, P. A. (1985) Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Homoptera, Auchenorhyncha) 1956 - 1980. Series Entomologica 34. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, Dordrect, 414 pp.
- 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