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Cicada melanoptera Gmelin 1789

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  • 1. Department of Biology, Barry University, 11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami Shores, FL 3316 - 6695, USA

Description

Cicada melanoptera Gmelin, 1789

Cicada marginata Degeer 1773: 226, Pl. 33, Fig. 14. (Surinam)

Cicada marginata Goeze 1778: 160.

Cicada marginata Goeze 1780: 147, Pl. 33, Fig. 14.

C[icada] marginata Retzius 1783: 83.

[Cicada] melanoptera Gmelin 1789 nom. nov. pro Cicada marginata Degeer 1773 nec Cicada marginata Sulzer, 1761: 2116. [Cicada] melanoptera Turton 1806: 602.

Cicada melanoptera Sherborn 1902: 586.

Cicada melanoptera Metcalf 1963b: 829–830.

Remarks. The species description is of a brown cicada with a yellow longitudinal stripe on each side and black hind wings (Degeer 1773). Degeer (1773) describes the species as similar in appearance and size to A. collaris n. comb. with the ends of the fore wings dark red and small brown spots on the body and a yellow stripes by the wing borders, on each side of the head, thorax and abdomen. The presence of two small eyes (ocelli) on the dorsal head prohibits the species from being classified within the Cicadidae. The narrow, elongated wings and rounded postclypeus suggest this is also a species of Cicadellidae. The wide head described by Degeer (1773) and coloration pattern suggest a species similar to Homalodisca lucernaria (Linnaeus, 1758) (Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae: Proconiini) also from Suriname. Therefore, based on these similarities, Cicada melanoptera Gmelin, 1789 (= Cicada marginata Degeer, 1773 is reassigned here to become Homalodisca melanoptera (Gmelin 1789) n. comb.

Distribution. The species has been reported only from Suriname (Metcalf 1963b).

Notes

Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Suriname including the description of two new species, five new combinations, and three new records, pp. 453-481 in Zootaxa 4881 (3) on page 474, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4283890

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gmelin
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadidae
Genus
Cicada
Species
melanoptera
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cicada melanoptera Gmelin, 1789 sec. Sanborn, 2020

References

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  • Degeer, C. (1773) Cinquieme memoire. Des Cigales. Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire des Insectes. Tome Troisieme. Pierre Hesselberg, Stockholm, 696 pp., 44 pls.
  • Goeze, J. A. E. (1778) Entomologische Beytrage zu des Ritter Linne zwolften Ausgabe des Natursystems. Zweyter Theil. Weidmanns Erben und Reich, Leipzig, LXXII + 352 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 45974
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  • Metcalf, Z. P. (1963 b) General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 1. Cicadidae. Section II. Gaeninae and Cicadinae. North Carolina State College Contribution, 1502, 587 - 919.
  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Edito duodecima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius, Holmiae, 824 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 157601