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Diceroprocta ruatana

  • 1. Barry University, Department of Biology, 11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami Shores, FL 33161 - 6695, U. S. A.

Description

Diceroproctaruatana (Distant, 1891)

(SubfamilyCicadinae, Tribe Cryptotympanini, Subtribe Cryptotympanaria)

Geographical distribution. Diceroproctaruatana has previously been reported from Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua (Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2006a; 2010b; Sanborn and Maes 2012; Maes et al. 2012).

Specimens examined. COSTA RICA, Guan., S. Cañas, 24-30 – IV – 1990, F.D. Parker (1 male, EMUS); ibidem, 4-6 – V – 1989 (2 males, EMUS, 2 females, AFSC); ibidem, 8-15 – V – 1990 (3 males, 4 females, EMUS); ibidem, 16-23 – V – 1989 (1 female, EMUS, 2 males, AFSC); Puntarenas Prov., 3 km Eof Miramar, 12 – V – 1995, B.O. Huntsman (1 female, BYUC); Prov. Guanacanaste, El Centro Ecológico La Pacífico, 4 – VI – 1989, J.T. McBurney (1 female, BYUC).

Notes

Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2014, Checklist of the cicadas (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Costa Rica including new records for fourteen species, pp. 33-39 in Check List 10 (2) on page 247, DOI: 10.15560/10.2.246, http://zenodo.org/record/1141621

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cicadidae
Genus
Diceroprocta
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Distant
Species
ruatana
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Diceroprocta ruatana (Distant, 1891) sec. Sanborn, 2014

References

  • 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.
  • Sanborn, A. F. 2006 a. New records for the cicada fauna from four Central American countries (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Florida Entomologist 89 (1): 75 - 79.
  • Sanborn, A. F. 2010 b. New records and new species of Central American cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 45 (2): 67 - 76.
  • Sanborn, A. F. and J. - M. Maes. 2012. Checklist of the cicadas (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Nicaragua including new records for seventeen species. Check List 8 (3): 437 - 442.
  • Maes, J. - M., M. Moulds and A. F. Sanborn. 2012. Cicadidae (Homoptera) de Nicaragua: catalogo ilustrado, incluyendo especies exoticas del Museo Entomologico de Leon. Revista Nicaraguense Entomologia 72 (Suplemento 2): 1 - 138.