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Quesada gigas

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Quesada gigas (Olivier, 1790)

Cicada gigas Olivier 1790: 750 (Java).

Cicada triupsilon Walker 1850: 103 (Unknown collection locality).

Cicada sonans Walker 1850: 104 (Unknown collection locality).

Cicada consonans Walker 1850: 106 (West Coast of America).

Cicada vibrans Walker 1850: 107 (Unknown collection locality).

Tympanoterpes sibilarix Berg 1879: 141 (Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia).

Distribution. As described above, Quesada gigas has been reported from extends from as far south as central Argentina throughout South and Central America to the southern United States (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011 a, 2013, 2014, 2018b, 2019 a, 2020a, c, d, e; Sanborn & Heath 2014; Nunes et al. 2023). Canada (Sanborn & Heath 2017), Suriname (Sanborn 2020d), and Chile (Sanborn 2021b) are the only countries in the New World without a record of the species.

Notes

Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2023, Two new species and two new records for cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from French Guiana, with an updated faunal list of French Guiana and the first synoptic list for Guyana, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 5368 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5368.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10150376

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C587947646472F7987FD55EB9FFB69

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5368.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10150376 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFFCFFEC767947107910FFB0E938FFDA (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/954D5437-2252-41EF-90FA-6885EB10F0E2 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03C587947646472F7987FD55EB9FFB69 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/219538513 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/280970/taxon/03C587947646472F7987FD55EB9FFB69.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Olivier
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadidae
Genus
Quesada
Species
gigas
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Quesada gigas (Olivier, 1790) sec. Sanborn, 2023

References

  • Olivier, G. A. (1790) Cigale, Cicada. Encyclopedie Methodique Histoire Naturelles Insectes, 5, 735 - 760.
  • Walker, F. (1850) List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. British Museum Trustees, London, 260 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9063
  • Berg, C. (1879) Hemiptera Argentina (Continuacion.) Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, 8, 135 - 144.
  • 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. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, Series Entomologica, 34, 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. (2014) Checklist of the cicadas (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Costa Rica including new records for fourteen species. Check List, 10, 246 - 252. https: // doi. org / 10.15560 / 10.2.246
  • Sanborn, A. F. (2018 b) The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records. Zootaxa, 4493 (1), 1 - 69. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4493.1.1
  • 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. (2020 a) 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. 4785.1.1
  • 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
  • Nunes, V. L., Ruschel, T. P., Maccagnan, D. H. B., Simies, P. C. & Acosta, R. C. (2023) Cigarras do Brasil, Guia Fotographico. 1 a Edicao. ebook, 46 pp. Avaialble from: https: // zenodo. org / record / 7712483 (accessed 16 October 2023)
  • Sanborn, A. F. & Heath, M. S. (2017) Catalogue of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) of continental North America North of Mexico. 2 nd Edition. Thomas Say Publications in Entomology: Monographs. Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland, 302 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.3390 / d 5020166
  • Sanborn, A. F. (2020 d) The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Suriname including the description of two new species, five new combinations, and three new records. Zootaxa, 4881 (3), 453 - 481. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4881.3.2
  • Sanborn, A. F. (2021 b) A new species, genus and tribe of cicada (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Tibicininae) from Chile with a list of Chilean cicada fauna. Zootaxa, 4952 (1), 87 - 100. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4952.1.5