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Quesada gigas

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Quesada gigas (Olivier, 1790)

Cicada gigas Olivier 1790: 750 (Java) (error).

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. Quesada gigas may have the most extensive north to south range of any cicada species. Specimens have been recorded from as far south as central Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Antilles, the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, with the northernmost expansion extending into Texas in the southern United States (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2014; 2018; 2019a; 2020a, c, d, e, 2023b; Sanborn & Heath 2014; Nunes et al. 2023). Canada (Sanborn & Heath 2017), Suriname (Sanborn 2020d), and Chile (Sanborn 2021b) are the only countries in the continental New World without a record of the species. Ruffinelli (1970) reported the species from Yacaré, Salto, and Montevideo in Uruguay.

Notes

Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2024, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Uruguay with a key to known species and comments on species of the genus Acanthoventris Ruschel including the resurrection of a previously synonymized species, pp. 301-326 in Zootaxa 5399 (4) on page 308, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10517001

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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, 2024

References

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  • 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. 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. (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
  • Sanborn, A. F. (2014) A new genus and new tribe of cicada from South America (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) with a note on the taxonomic position of Ahomana Distant, 1905. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 116, 339 - 348. https: // doi. org / 10.4289 / 0013 - 8797.116.3.339
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  • 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 Fotographica. 1 a Edicao. Ebook, 44 pp. Available from: https: // www. researchgate. net / publication / 368825151 _ Cigarras _ do _ Brasil _ Guia _ Fotografico _ 1 _ edicao (accessed 19 December 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
  • Ruffinelli, A. (1970) Contribucion al conocimiento de los Homopteros Auquenorrincos del Uruguay. Publicacao Tecnica; Serie Zoologia Agricola, 1, 1 - 25.