Cracenpsaltria brasilianorum (Kirkaldy, 1909)

Cicada viridis (nom. nud.) Stoll 1788: 72.

Cicada marginata Olivier 1790: 755 . (Suriname)

Tettigonia viridis Fabricius 1803: 39 .

Ariasa brasilianorum Kirkaldy 1909 nom. nov. pro Cicada marginata Olivier, 1790 nec Cicada marginata Sulzer, 1761: 391 .

REMARKS. The history of the taxon and the validity of C. brasilianorum have been reviewed recently (Sanborn 2016c). The generic characters can be used to distinguish the only species of the genus found in Peru. The species is 24.5–34.0 mm body length, green (often fading to tawny) heavily marked with piceous and testaceous, the abdomen is tawny and ferruginous with transverse piceous fasciae on the tergites.

DISTRIBUTION. Specimens have been reported from Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Peru, South America, and Suriname (Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2016c; 2019b).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. “ PERU Madre de Dios / nr Puerto Maldonado / Posada Amazonas / lodge@Rio Tambopata / S12 48.115 W69 18.019 / 609 ft; (30-IX)–(3-X)-2004 / C R Bartlett ” (two males UDCC); “ PERU Madre de Dios / nr Puerto Maldonado / Posada Amazonas / lodge@Rio Tambopata / S12 48.115 W69 18.019 / 609 ft; (7–10)- X-2004 / C R Bartlett ” (one male UDCC, one male AFSC); “ PERU: Madre de Dios / Rio Tambopata, Posadas Amazonas / 13 December 2003 / Svenson, Miller, Ogden, Osbourne ” one male (UCMS).