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Ollanta Distant 1905

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Genus Ollanta Distant, 1905d

Ollanta Distant 1905d: 313.

TYPE SPECIES. Ollanta mexicana Distant, 1905a: 141. (Atoyac, Vera Cruz, Mexico)

Remarks. Species of the genus are distinguished by their prominent eyes projecting laterally beyond the anterior angles of the pronotum, the head being broader than the mesonotum, a globose postclypeus, large timbal covers exposing only a portion of the timbal dorsally with rounded anterior covering timbal cavity laterally, anteriorly narrowing lateral pronotal margins, abdomen about as long as length between apex of postclypeus and posterior cruciform elevation (Distant 1905d). The genus can be distinguished from Pacarina Distant, 1905d by the vertex in the are of the ocelli being about the same as the length of the frons rather that being longer than the frons as it is in Pacarina, the large timbal covers that enclose the timbal cavity laterally, the more globose postcylpeus, and larger body size (Distant 1905d; 1906; Sanborn et al. 2012).

Distribution. The genus has been reported from the Caribbean and Central America with records from the Bahamas, Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Turks & Caicos (Metcalf, 1963a; Sanborn & Maes 2012; Maes et al. 2012; Sanborn, 2013; 2014).

Notes

Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2018, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 4493 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4493.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1445162

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Scientific name authorship
Distant
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadidae
Genus
Ollanta
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Ollanta Distant, 1905 sec. Sanborn, 2018

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
  • Distant, W. L. (1905 a) Cicadidae and Fulgoridae. Biologia Centrali-Americana; contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America, Part 15 (1), 140 - 146.
  • Distant, W. L. (1906) A synonymic catalogue of Homoptera. Part I. Cicadidae. Trustees of the British Museum, London, 207 pp.
  • Sanborn, A. F. & Heath, M. S. (2012) Catalogue of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) of continental North America North of Mexico. Thomas Say Publications in Entomology: Monographs. Entomological Society of America, Lanham, MD, 227 pp.
  • 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. & 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. (2013) Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea). With contributions to the bibliography by Martin H. Villet. Elsevier / Academic Press, San Diego, 1001 pp.
  • Sanborn, A. F. (2014) 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