Proarna Stål, 1864

Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records, Zootaxa 4655 (1), pp. 1-104 : 15-16

Genus Proarna Stål, 1864

Proarna Stål 1864: 61 .

TYPE SPECIES. Cicada hilaris Germar 1834: 69 . ( Australia?)

REMARKS. Species of Proarna possess a head that is about as wide as the mesonotum with the eyes scarcely projecting beyond the anterior pronotal angle, the radial crossvein is oriented vertically to the radius anterior 2 and radius posterior veins and the radiomedial crossvein is obliquely oriented, the large semicircular male opercula, and triangular or small, curved timbal covers are characteristic of the genus.

DISTRIBUTION. Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the Virgin Islands ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2014a; 2018c; Sanborn & Maes 2012; Maes et al. 2012; Sanborn & Heath 2014).