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Proarna Stal 1864

  • 1. Department of Biology, Barry University, 11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami Shores, FL 3316 - 6695, USA

Description

Genus Proarna Stål, 1864

Proarna Stål 1864: 61.

Type species. Cicada hilaris Germar 1834: 69. (Australia?)

Remarks. A head about as wide as mesonotum, eyes scarcely projecting beyond anterior pronotal angle, radial crossvein oriented vertically to radius anterior 2, radius posterior vein and radiomedial crossvein obliquely oriented, large semicircular male opercula, and triangular or small, curved timbal covers characterize species of the genus.

Distribution. Species of the genus have been reported from Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, and numerous islands in the West Indies (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2014a; 2018b; 2019b; 2020c, d, e; Sanborn & Maes 2012; Maes et al. 2012; Sanborn & Heath 2014).

Notes

Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Suriname including the description of two new species, five new combinations, and three new records, pp. 453-481 in Zootaxa 4881 (3) on page 462, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4283890

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cicadidae
Genus
Proarna
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Stal
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Proarna Stal, 1864 sec. Sanborn, 2020

References

  • Stal, C. (1864) Hemiptera mexicana enumeravit speciesque novas descripsit (continuatio). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung. Herausgegeben von dem entomologischen Vereine zu Stettin, 25, 49 - 86. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 36493
  • Germar, E. F. (1834) Observations sur plusieurs especes du genre Cicada, Latr. Revue Entomologique Publiee par Gustav Silbermann, 2, 49 - 82.
  • Metcalf, Z. P. (1963 a) General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 1. Cicadidae. Section I. Tibiceninae. North Carolina State College Contribution, 1502, i-vii + 1 - 585.
  • 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. (2011 a) Checklist of the cicadas of French Guiana including new records and the description of nine new species (Insecta, Hemiptera, Cicadoidea, Cicadidae). Zoosystema, 33, 377 - 418. https: // doi. org / 10.5252 / z 2011 n 3 a 6
  • Sanborn, A. F. & Maes, J. - M. (2012) Checklist of the cicadas (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Nicaragua including new re- cords for seventeen species. Check List, 8, 437 - 442. https: // doi. org / 10.15560 / 8.3.437
  • Maes, J. - M., Moulds, M. & Sanborn, A. F. (2012) Cicadidae (Homoptera) de Nicaragua: catalogo ilustrado, incluyendo especies exoticas del Museo Entomologico de Leon. Revista Nicaraguense Entomologia, 72 (Suplemento 2), 1 - 138.
  • 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