Proarna uruguayensis Berg, 1882

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 : 304

Proarna uruguayensis Berg, 1882

Proarna uruguayensis Berg 1882: 43 (Montevideo, Uruguay).

Remarks. A specimen labeled “Typus” is deposited in the Museum f̧r Naturkunde, Berlin (personal observation). A single male from Montevideo was used in the description of the species so the specimen may be considered to be the holotype ( Berg 1882). Type material was previously reported to be in the Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität, Berlin ( Torres 1961b).

Distribution. The species has been reported previously from Uruguay and Argentina ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2013; Sanborn & Heath 2014) with the recent expansion of the range to include Brazil ( Sanborn 2023b).

Material examined. “ Montevideo / Coll. Sivori ” three males and one female ( AFSC) .