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Herrera Distant 1905

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Genus Herrera Distant, 1905c

Herrera Distant 1905c: 486.

TYPE SPECIES. Cicada marginella Walker 1858a: 21. (Orizaba, Vera Cruz, Mexico)

Remarks. Species of Herrera are characterized by having a head about as wide as the mesonotum, the vertex is longer than the frons, the pronotum is about as long as the mesonotum, the abdomen is about as long as the distance from the apex of the head to the cruciform elevation, small male opercula, the strongly spined fore femora, and the fore wing width being slightly more than half the fore wing length (Distant 1905c).

Distribution. Species of the genus have been recorded from Argentina, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Panama (Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2013; 2014; Sanborn & Heath 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 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4493.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1445162

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Biodiversity

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

References

  • Distant, W. L. (1905 c) Rhynchotal notes XXXII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, 15, 478 - 486. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745480509442837
  • Walker, F. (1858 a) List of the specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. British Museum Trustees, London, 307 pp.
  • Metcalf, Z. P. (1963 c) General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 2. Tibicinidae. North Carolina State College Contribution, 1564, i - vi + 1 - 492.
  • 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
  • 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