Coata facialis Distant, 1906b

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the description of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records, Zootaxa 4880 (1), pp. 1-80 : 68

Coata facialis Distant, 1906b

Coata facialis Distant 1906b: 31 . (Santa Inéz, Quito, and an undetermined locality in Ecuador)

[ Coata facialis ] var. Jacobi 1907a: 25. (Balzapamba, Ecuador) n. syn.

REMARKS.—According to Article 73.2.3, the type locality includes all of the localities of the syntypes ( ICZN 1999 ). Under Article 11.9.1, a valid species name requires at least two letters ( ICZN 1999 ).As a result, the variety proposed by Jacobi (1907a) is not valid and cannot be classified as a subspecies under Article 45.6.3 ( ICZN 1999 ). The proposed variety of Jacobi is considered to be a synonym of Distant’s species as Jacobi (1907a) only distinguished the taxon based on size and color variation in a single specimen.

This is a green species marked with fuscous and black. The species has infuscation on the fore wing apex, extending from proximal radius anterior 2 across the radial crossvein, on the radiomedial crossvein and along the posterior half of the nodal line (illustrated in Jacobi 1907a).

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported only from Ecuador ( Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2013). The species has been recorded from Balzapamba, Bolívar province, Coca, Orellana province, Santa Inez and Quito, Pichincha province and Macas, Morona Santiago province, and Rio Mangavisa ( Distant 1906b; Jacobi 1907a; Goding 1925).