Guyalna flavibasalis ( Distant, 1905d )

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 : 31

Guyalna flavibasalis ( Distant, 1905d)

Fidicina flavibasalis Distant 1905d: 317 . (Cachabé, Ecuador)

REMARKS.—The species was recently reassigned to Guyalna based on multiple diagnostic structures ( Sanborn 2018c). It has a distinctive green head and thorax marked with piceous and a piceous abdomen possessing lateral silvery pile on tergites 3 and 4. It can be distinguished from the other Ecuadorian species of the genus by its size and orange basal area of the wings. Body lengths are 20–22 mm.

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been recorded from Colombia and Ecuador ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2013). The species has been reported from Cachabi, Esmeraldas province ( Distant 1905d; Goding 1925).