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Mendozana antennaria

  • 1. Department of Biology, Barry University, 11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami Shores, FL 33161 - 6695, USA
  • 2. 104 Hummingbird Circle, Buchanan Dam, TX 78609, USA

Description

Mendozana antennaria (Jacobi, 1907)

Tettigades antennaria Jacobi 1907b: 204.

Semaiophora dietherti Schmidt 1926: 5.

Type locality. Santiago del Estero, Argentina.

Remarks. The species is endemic to Argentina with records from Buenos Aires and Santiago del Estero Provinces (Jacobi 1907b; Torres 1945a). We collected examples in Chaco Province. The species is associated with the Chaco floristic province (Sanborn et al. 2011a).

New provincial records. Chaco, Rt. 11—12.5 km No. of Rt. 16, 28-XII-1986, J.E. Heath Coll. (one male, MSHC); Chaco, Rt. 11—12.5 km No. of Rt. 16, 28-XII-1986, F. Noriega coll. (one male, MSHC); Chaco, Rt. 11—12.5 km No. of Rt. 16, 28-XII-1986, J.E. & M.S. Heath Coll. (one male, MSHC); Chaco, Rt. 11—12.5 km No. of Rt. 16, 29-XII-1986, Al Sanborn Coll. (one male, MSHC); Chaco, Dto. 1 o de Mayo, Ruta 11, 12.5 km No. of Ruta 16, 29-XII-1988, Heath-Sanborn-Noriega Coll. (two males, MSHC); Chaco, Rt. 11—12.5 km No. of Rt. 16, 28-XII-1986, J.E. & M.S. Heath Coll. (one male, AFSC); Chaco, Dto. 1 o de Mayo, Ruta 11, 12.5 km No. of Ruta 16, 29-XII-1988, Heath-Sanborn-Noriega coll. (one male, AFSC); Prov. Chaco, Ruta 11, 12.5. km North of junction with Ruta 16, 12-I-1992, A.. Sanborn Coll. (two males, AFSC).

Notes

Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AFSC , MSHC
Event date
1986-12-28 , 1986-12-29 , 1988-12-29 , 1992-01-12
Family
Cicadidae
Genus
Mendozana
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Jacobi
Species
antennaria
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1986-12-28 , 1986-12-29 , 1988-12-29 , 1992-01-12
Taxonomic concept label
Mendozana antennaria (Jacobi, 1907) sec. Sanborn & Heath, 2014

References

  • Jacobi, A. (1907 b) Neue Cicadiden Sudamerikas. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1907, 201 - 207.
  • Schmidt, E. (1926) Vier neue Zikaden. Societas Entomologica, 41, 5 - 6.
  • Torres, B. A. (1945 a) Revision de los generos Chonosia Dist. Mendozana Dist. y Derotettix Berg y algunas interesantes notas cicadidologicas (Homoptera-Cicadidae). Notas del Museo de La Plata, 10, 55 - 82.
  • Sanborn, A. F., Heath, J. E., Phillips, P. K., Heath, M. S. & Noriega, F. G. (2011 a) Thermal adaptation and diversity in tropical ecosystems: evidence from cicadas (Hemiptera, Cicadidae). PLoS ONE, 6 (12), e 29368. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0029368