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Proarna insignis Distant 1881

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Biology, Barry University, Miami Shores, FL, USA

Description

Proarna insignis Distant, 1881a

[Proarna albida] insignis Distant, 1881a: 12.

Proarna insignis Distant, 1905d: 141.

This species has a wide geographic distribution being reported from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Argentina and South America (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels and van der Laan 1985; Sanborn et al. 1995a; Sanborn 2006b, 2007a,b, 2009). It has been reported from the Dept. Magdalena (Davis 1935) and the Valle de Medellín and Magdalena (Daniel 1946) in Colombia.

Material examined. “ Colombia Dept Valle, 9 km N of Dagua, Oleoducto Pacifico, RE Woodruff, 27 II 1969, Blacklight trap ” (two female, FSCA); “ Colombia, Medellin, March 1988, Col. By Louis Posada ” (one female, AFSC); “ Curiche River, Chocó Dept., Colombia. 26/4/67 ” (one female, AFSC); “ COLOMBIA: Amazon River, Monkey Island near Leticia, 20-23-IX-1979, Mac A. Tidwell ” (one female, AFSC); “ Don Diego (100 ft.), Dept. Magdalena, Colombia, S.A.” (one female, AFSC). Photograph of a female “ COLOMBIA Punta Soldado, Valle Abr 8/ 2000, leg. Salazar J.I. V.” (UNCC).

Notes

Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2010, The cicadas of Colombia including new records and the description of a new species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), pp. 1577-1607 in Journal of Natural History 44 (25 - 26) on page 1587, DOI: 10.1080/00222931003760046, http://zenodo.org/record/5209895

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AFSC , FSCA , UNCC
Event date
1967-04-26 , 1969-02-27 , 1979-09-20 , 2000-04-08
Verbatim event date
1967-04-26 , 1969-02-27 , 1979-09-20/23 , 2000-04-08
Scientific name authorship
Distant
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadidae
Genus
Proarna
Species
insignis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Proarna insignis Distant, 1881 sec. Sanborn, 2010

References

  • Distant WL. 1881 a. Rhynchota: Homoptera. Biol Cent-Am Pt. 15 (1): 1 - 16.
  • Distant WL. 1905 d. Cicadidae and Fulgoridae. Biol Cent-Am Pt. 15 (1): 140 - 146.
  • Metcalf ZP. 1963 a. General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 1. Cicadidae. Section I. Tibiceninae. NC St Coll Contr. 1502: 1 - 585.
  • Duffels JP, van der Laan PA. 1985. Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Homoptera, Auchenorhyncha) 1956 - 1980. Series Entomologica 34. Dordrect: Dr. W. Junk Publishers.
  • Sanborn AF, Heath JE, Heath MS, Noriega FG. 1995 a. Thermoregulation by endogenous heat production in two South American grass dwelling cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae: Proarna). Fla Entomol. 78: 319 - 328.
  • Sanborn AF. 2006 b. New records for the cicada fauna from four Central American countries (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Fla Entomol. 89: 75 - 79.
  • Sanborn AF. 2007 a. Additions to the cicada fauna of Venezuela with the description of a new species and checklist of the Venezuelan cicada fauna (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Zootaxa 1503: 21 - 32.
  • Sanborn AF. 2009. Checklist, new species and key to the cicadas of Cuba (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Dtsch Entomol Zeit. 59: 85 - 92.
  • Davis WT. 1935. New cicadas with notes on North American and West Indian species. J NY Entomol Soc. 43: 173 - 199.
  • Daniel H. 1946. Aspectos de la lucha biologica. Rev Univ Antioquia. 78 - 79: 243 - 249.