Published October 23, 2020 | Version v1

Herrera DISTANT 1905

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Barry University, Department of Biology, 11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami Shores, FL 33161 - 6695, U. S. A.

Description

Key to the Panamanian Species of Herrera

Only the described species are included in the key as there are no diagnostic characters listed by Wolda (1989) and Wolda and Ramos (1992) for the remaining two undescribed taxa in the genus Herrera. The key can be applied to specimens of both sexes.

1. Body length less than 15 mm ........... 2

— Body length greater than 15 mm ...... 3

2. Head and thorax green (faded to ochraceous in some specimens) with a castaneous or tawny abdomen ......................... ............................ H. ancilla (St̊al, 1864)

— Body piceous ........................................ ... H. lugubrina lugubrina (St̊al, 1864)

3. Head and prothorax without piceous markings ........ H. barrocoloradoensis Sanborn, new species

— Head and prothorax with piceous markings ............................................ 4

4. Prothorax ambient fissure with transverse piceous fascia ..................................... ............... H. nigratorquata Sanborn, 2018

— Prothorax ambient fissure with transverse piceous fascia ............................. .................. H. sigillata Sanborn, 2018

NEW RECORDS

Among the specimens sent to me for determination were two species previously unknown from Panama. The new species and the two new records provided here bring the known alpha diversity for Panama to 57 cicada species. In addition, six undetermined and tentatively new species have been identified in the literature (Wolda 1989; Wolda and Ramos 1992; Aiello and Stucky 2020), but lack official names.

Notes

Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, A New Species of Herrera Distant, 1905 (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae: Carinetini) from Panama with New Records for Two Additional Species, pp. 907-915 in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 122 (4) on page 913, DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.122.4.907, http://zenodo.org/record/8376780

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Additional details

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, 2020

References

  • Wolda, H. 1989. Seasonal cues in tropical organisms: rainfall? Not necessarily. Oecologia (Berlin) 80: 437 - 442.
  • Wolda, H. and J. A. Ramos. 1992. Cicadas in Panama, their distribution, seasonality and diversity, pp. 271 - 279. In Quintero, D. and A. Aiello, eds. The insects of Panama and Mesoamerica. Selected studies. Oxford University Press, New York. 720 pp.
  • Stral, C. 1864. Hemiptera mexicana enumeravit speciesque novas descripsit (continuatio). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung. Herausgegeben von dem entomologischen Vereine zu Stettin 25: 49 - 86.
  • Sanborn, A. F. 2018. The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records. Zootaxa 4493: 1 - 69.
  • Aiello, A. and B. J. Stucky. 2020. First host plant record for Pacarina (Hemiptera, Cicadidae). Neotropical Biology and Conservation 15: 77 - 88.