Herrera, DISTANT, 1905

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, A New Species of Herrera Distant, 1905 (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae: Carinetini) from Panama with New Records for Two Additional Species, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 122 (4), pp. 907-915 : 913

Key to the Panamanian Species of Herrera

Only the described species are included in the key as there are no diagnostic characters listed by Wolda (1989) and Wolda and Ramos (1992) for the remaining two undescribed taxa in the genus Herrera . The key can be applied to specimens of both sexes.

1. Body length less than 15 mm ........... 2

— Body length greater than 15 mm ...... 3

2. Head and thorax green (faded to ochraceous in some specimens) with a castaneous or tawny abdomen ......................... ............................ H. ancilla ( St̊al, 1864)

— Body piceous ........................................ ... H. lugubrina lugubrina ( St̊al, 1864)

3. Head and prothorax without piceous markings ........ H. barrocoloradoensis Sanborn , new species

— Head and prothorax with piceous markings ............................................ 4

4. Prothorax ambient fissure with transverse piceous fascia ..................................... ............... H. nigratorquata Sanborn, 2018

— Prothorax ambient fissure with transverse piceous fascia ............................. .................. H. sigillata Sanborn, 2018

NEW RECORDS

Among the specimens sent to me for determination were two species previously unknown from Panama. The new species and the two new records provided here bring the known alpha diversity for Panama to 57 cicada species. In addition, six undetermined and tentatively new species have been identified in the literature ( Wolda 1989; Wolda and Ramos 1992; Aiello and Stucky 2020), but lack official names.