Selymbria subolivacea ( Stål, 1862 )

Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, The cicada genus Selymbria Stål, 1861 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Tibicininae: Selymbrini): redescription including ten new species and a key to the genus, Zootaxa 4614 (3), pp. 401-448 : 445

Selymbria subolivacea ( Stål, 1862)

C[icada (Cicada)] subolivacea Stål, 1862: 20 .

TYPE LOCALITY. Rio de Janiero , Brazil.

REMARKS. The holotype of this species is in the Stål collection at the NHRS. The species can be distinguished from all but S. ahyetios and S. pandora by the lack of infuscation on the apex of the fore wing. The Brazilian, S. subolivacea can be distinguished by its primarily greenish tawny coloration, green basal areas of the wings and larger body size (body length 27 mm, wing span 78 mm). Both S. ahyetios and S. pandora are smaller (body length less than 22 mm, wing span less than 57 mm), general body coloration ochraceous or than tawny, abdominal tergites fuscous or testaceous, and the basal area of the wings grayish and piceous or red.

DISTRIBUTION. The species is currently known only from Brazil ( Metcalf 1963; Sanborn 2013).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. “ Rio Jan // F. Sahib. // subolivacea Stål // Typus // NHRS-GULI / 000046991 ” holotype female ( NHRS).