Prasinosoma Torres, 1963

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 : 20

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Genus Prasinosoma Torres, 1963 View in CoL

Prasinosoma Torres 1963a: 14 View in CoL .

TYPE SPECIES. Proarna heidemanni Distant 1905d: 311 View in CoL . ( Argentina and Sapucay , Paraguay)

REMARKS. Species of Prasinosoma possess a head wider than the mesonotum, the vertex in the area of the ocelli is longer than the dorsal postclypeus, the pronotal lateral margins are approximately parallel, about as wide as the mesonotum except for the lateral angle of the pronotal collar, pronotum about the same length as the mesonotum, fore wings hyaline, without infuscation, about 1.1–1.2X body length, opercula well developed, abdomen longer than the length from the apex of postclypeus to the cruciform elevation, and a pygofer lacking a dorsal beak ( Torres 1963a).

DISTRIBUTION. Species of the genus are currently known from Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011b; 2013; Sanborn & Heath 2014).

References

Distant, W. L. (1905 d) Rhynchotal notes XXX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, 15, 304 - 319. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 0374548050944304 7

Duffels, J. P. & van der Laan, P. A. (1985) Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Homoptera, Auchenorhyncha) 1956 - 1980. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, Series Entomologica 34, Dordrect, 414 pp.

Metcalf, Z. P. (1963 a) General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 1. Cicadidae. Section I. Tibiceninae. North Carolina State College Contribution, 1502, i-vii, 1 - 585.

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

Torres, B. A. (1963 a) Desmembracion en los generos Proarna Stal y Tympanoterpes Stal. Creacion del nuevo genero: Prasinosoma (Homoptera, Cicadidae). Revista Sociedad Uruguaya Entomologica, 5, 13 - 23.