Pacarina Distant, 1905d

Sanborn, Allen F., 2018, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records, Zootaxa 4493 (1), pp. 1-69 : 34

Genus Pacarina Distant, 1905d

Pacarina Distant 1905d: 314 .

TYPE SPECIES. Pacarina puella Davis, 1923 nom. nov. pro Cicada signifera Walker, 1858 , nec Cicada signifera Germar, 1830: 11 . (Orizaba, Vera Cruz, Mexico)

Remarks. Sanborn et al. (2012) provided a complete generic description. Species of Pacarina are recognized by their prominent eyes that project laterally beyond the anterior edges of the pronotum, the small size and abrupt facial color change, triangular timbal covers of the males, the nonparallel status of the radial and radiomedial crossveins in the forewings is a secondary diagnostic character ( Sanborn et al. 2012). They are most similar to species of Ollanta in Panama but species of Ollanta are larger with timbal covers that cover the timbals laterally, have a globose postclypeus and the vertex in the area of the ocelli is about the same length as the frons ( Distant 1905d; 1906; Sanborn et al. 2012).

Distribution. The range of the genus Pacarina extends from Panama in the south, through Central America northward into the United States of America with records from Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and the United States of America ( Metcalf, 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan, 1985; Sanborn et al. 2012; Sanborn, 2013).