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Majeorona Distant 1905

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Genus Majeorona Distant, 1905d

Majeorona Distant 1905d: 318.

Type species. Fidicina aper Walker 1850: 87. (Cayenne, French Guiana)

REMARKS. Species of Majeorona are distinguished by a head with anteriorly extended, prominent stylate eyes, head width wider than mesonotum, pronotum shorter than mesonotum, and timbal covers not being concave dorsally.

DISTRIBUTION. Species of the genus have been reported from Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2014a; 2018b; Sanborn & Maes 2012; Maes et al. 2012) with the range recently expanded to include Bolivia (Sanborn 2019b).

Notes

Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Peru including the description of twenty-four new species, three new synonymies, and thirty-seven new records, pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4785 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4785.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3862255

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Distant
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadidae
Genus
Majeorona
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Majeorona Distant, 1905 sec. Sanborn, 2020

References

  • Distant, W. L. (1905 d) Rhynchotal notes XXX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, 15, 304 - 319. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745480509443047
  • 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
  • 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) 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. & Maes, J. - M. (2012) Checklist of the cicadas (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Nicaragua including new records 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. (2019 b) 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