Quesada gigas
Creators
Description
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.
REMARKS. The type locality of Java is a mistake. The species is found over most of the New World (Sanborn 2011a, b; 2013; 2014a; 2018b; 2019b; Sanborn & Heath 2014; 2017).
Quesada gigas is one of the largest of Peruvian cicadas. Body lengths up to 45 mm and wingspans of 120 mm have been reported for the species (Sanborn & Heath 2017). The body is tawny marked with piceous, the male abdomen is widest at segments 3 and 4, and the male timbal covers recurve along the posterior timbal cavity forming a ribbon-like structure posterior to the timbals with a small triangular extension laterally. The pure-tone song sounds like a whistle and is primarily produced at dawn and dusk. The species is able to remain active without access to solar radiation through endothermic heat production to maintain body temperature (Sanborn et al. 1995b). The lack of infuscation on the proximal and distal radius anterior 2, proximal median vein 1, medial crossvein and mediocubital crossvein of the fore wing quickly distinguish it from Q. sodalis (Walker, 1850).
DISTRIBUTION. This species may have the most extensive north to south range of any cicada species ranging from southern Texas to central Argentina. It has been reported 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, extending to the southern United States (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Maccagnan & Martinelli 2011; Sanborn 2011b; 2013; 2014a; 2018b; 2019b; Maccagnan et al. 2014; 2017; Monteiro et al. 2014; Sanborn & Heath 2014; Reis et al. 2015; Oliveira et al. 2017). Jacobi (1951) reported the species from Satipo, Peru. Pogue (1996) reported the species from Pakitza and Tambopata.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. “ PERU: San Martin Dept. / Moyabamba, vic. / Ecológico “Rumipata” / 13–18-X-2012 J. E. Eger // S 06º 04’32.0”, W / 076º 58’ 07.5” 970 / m, MV & UV Light ” one male and one female (FSCA); “ PERU: San Martin Dept. / Tarapoto, vic. Cordillera / Escalera Lodge, 432 m / 11–13-X-2012 J. E. Eger // S 06º 28’08.1” / W 076º 21’16.4” / MV & UV Light ” four males and one female (FSCA); “ Peru, Yurimaguas / nr. Huallaga riv. / VIII. 1988; S. Hoagland ” one male (AFSC).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AFSC , FSCA
- Event date
- 2012-10-11 , 2012-10-13
- Family
- Cicadidae
- Genus
- Quesada
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Olivier
- Species
- gigas
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2012-10-11/13 , 2012-10-13/18
- Taxonomic concept label
- Quesada gigas (Olivier, 1790) sec. Sanborn, 2020
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.
- 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. (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
- 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
- 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., Heath, M. S., Heath, J. E. & Noriega, F. G. (1995 b) Diurnal activity, temperature responses and endothermy in three South American cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae: Dorisiana bonaerensis, Quesada gigas, and Fidicina mannifera). Journal of Thermal Biology, 20, 451 - 460. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / 0306 - 4565 (95) 00004 - G
- 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.
- Maccagnan, D. H. B. & Martinelli, N. M. (2011) Description and key to the fifth-instars of some cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) associated with coffee plants in Brazil. Neotropical Entomology, 40, 445 - 451. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 1519 - 566 X 2011000400006
- Sanborn, A. F. (2011 b) Checklist of the cicadas (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Paraguay including new records for six species. Check List, 7, 465 - 467. https: // doi. org / 10.15560 / 7.4.465
- Maccagnan, D. H. B., Pitta, R. M., Lunz, A. M., Behling, M. & Martinelli, N. M. (2014) Primeiro registro de cigarra em reflorestamentos com parica no Estado de Mato Grosso Brasil. Revista de Ciencias Agrarias, 57, 451 - 454. https: // doi. org / 10.4322 / rca. 1387
- Maccagnan, D. H. B., Matuo, T. K. & Martinelli, N. M. (2017) Oviposition of Quesada gigas in weed no hostess: implication in pest management. Ciencias Rural, 47 (09), e 20101752, 1 - 4. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / 0103 - 8478 cr 20170152
- Monteiro, O. M., Lunz, A. M., Azevedo, R. de, Junior, M. M. & Batista, T. F. V. (2014) Avaliacao de inseticida para controle da cigarra Quesada gigas em plantios de parica. Pesquisa Florestal Brasileira, 34, 169 - 172. https: // doi. org / 10.4336 / 2014. pfb. 34.78.502
- Reis, P. R., Rebelles, P. P. R., Pereira, M. C., Liska, G. R. & Morais, A. R. de (2015) Eficacia do enxofre aplicado via solo no controle da cigarra Quesada gigas (Olivier) em cafeeiro. Coffee Science, Lavras, 10, 527 - 536.
- Oliveira, R. R., Caramori, S. S. & Maccagnan, D. H. B. (2017) Could Fidicina mannifera (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Fidicinini) promote a resource pulse in two Brazilian Cerrado vegetation classes? Brazilian Journal of Biology, 77, 673 - 679. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / 1519 - 6984.13715
- Jacobi, A. (1951) Die Singzikaden. Titschack, Beitrage zur Fauna Perus, 2, 89 - 92.
- Pogue, M. G. (1996) Biodiversity of Cicadoidea (Homoptera) of Pakitza, Manu Reserved Zone and Tambopata Reserved Zone, Peru: A faunal comparison. In: Wilson, D. E. & Sandoval, A. (Eds.), Manu, the biodiversity of southeastern Peru. Smithsonian Institution, Editorial Horizonte, Lima, pp. 313 - 325. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / s 0266467498260391