Cicada melanoptera Gmelin, 1789

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Suriname including the description of two new species, five new combinations, and three new records, Zootaxa 4881 (3), pp. 453-481 : 474

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Cicada melanoptera Gmelin, 1789 View in CoL

Cicada marginata Degeer 1773: 226 View in CoL , Pl. 33, Fig. 14. ( Surinam)

Cicada marginata Goeze 1778: 160 View in CoL .

Cicada marginata Goeze 1780: 147 View in CoL , Pl. 33, Fig. 14.

C[icada] marginata Retzius 1783: 83 View in CoL .

[ Cicada] melanoptera Gmelin 1789 View in CoL nom. nov. pro Cicada marginata Degeer 1773 View in CoL nec Cicada marginata Sulzer, 1761: 2116 View in CoL . [ Cicada] melanoptera Turton 1806: 602 View in CoL .

Cicada melanoptera Sherborn 1902: 586 View in CoL .

Cicada melanoptera Metcalf 1963b: 829–830 View in CoL .

Remarks. The species description is of a brown cicada with a yellow longitudinal stripe on each side and black hind wings ( Degeer 1773). Degeer (1773) describes the species as similar in appearance and size to A. collaris n. comb. with the ends of the fore wings dark red and small brown spots on the body and a yellow stripes by the wing borders, on each side of the head, thorax and abdomen. The presence of two small eyes (ocelli) on the dorsal head prohibits the species from being classified within the Cicadidae . The narrow, elongated wings and rounded postclypeus suggest this is also a species of Cicadellidae . The wide head described by Degeer (1773) and coloration pattern suggest a species similar to Homalodisca lucernaria ( Linnaeus, 1758) ( Cicadellidae : Cicadellinae : Proconiini ) also from Suriname. Therefore, based on these similarities, Cicada melanoptera Gmelin, 1789 (= Cicada marginata Degeer, 1773 is reassigned here to become Homalodisca melanoptera ( Gmelin 1789) n. comb.

Distribution. The species has been reported only from Suriname ( Metcalf 1963b).