Acanthoventris Ruschel, 2023

Sanborn, Allen F., 2024, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Uruguay with a key to known species and comments on species of the genus Acanthoventris Ruschel including the resurrection of a previously synonymized species, Zootaxa 5399 (4), pp. 301-326 : 305

Genus Acanthoventris Ruschel (in Ruschel et al.), 2023

Type species. Cicada drewseni Stål 1854 (Minas Gerais, Brazil).

Remarks. Ruschel et al. (2023) identified specimens of the genus from French Guiana, Brazil, and Peru. In addition to these records, there are also records of what had been considered the type species reported from Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay ( Metcalf 1963a; Ruffinelli 1970; Sanborn 2011b, 2013; Sanborn & Heath 2014). These specimens are shown below to represent some of the new species described in Ruschel et al. (2023) and the only previously synonymized species that is resurrected here.