Dorisiana semilata ( Walker, 1850 )

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Peru including the description of twenty-four new species, three new synonymies, and thirty-seven new records, Zootaxa 4785 (1), pp. 1-129 : 120

Dorisiana semilata ( Walker, 1850)

Cicada semilata Walker 1850: 122 . ( St. Lucia, Antilles and Cayenne, French Guiana)

Cicada passer Walker 1850: 124 . ( Venezuela)

Cicada brizo Walker 1850: 125 . (Unknown collection locality)

Cicada melisa Walker 1850: 127 . ( Venezuela)

Cicada melina Walker 1850: 128 . (Unknown collection locality)

Cicada panyases Walker 1850: 133 . ( British Guiana)

Cicada pidytes Walker 1850: 134 . (Unknown collection locality)

Cicada physcoa Walker 1850: 135 . (Unknown collection locality)

Cicada braure Walker 1850: 136 . (Pará, Brazil)

Cicada solennis Walker 1850: 143 . ( St. Lucia, Antilles)

REMARKS. Metcalf (1963a) is the only one to reference D. semilata in Peru. However, he (along with many authors previous to the catalog) considered D. metcalfi (= D. viridis Olivier ) a junior synonym of D. semilata . Jacobi (1907; 1951) referenced Fidicina viridis as the species inhabiting Peru. Metcalf (1963a) then listed Peru as a locality where D. semilata was collected because of the synonymy. Since D. metcalfi and D. semilata represent different taxa ( Sanborn & Heath 2014), D. semilata is removed from the cicada fauna of Peru.

The number of species that were synonymized by Metcalf (1963a) may not all represent the same taxon. The relatively short descriptions in Walker (1850) may mean that some of the synonymized species are in fact valid taxa and further analysis should be performed.

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported from an expansive geographic range but this may need to be refined if some of the synonyms are determined to be valid species. Records for the species have been published for Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, St. Lucia, the Antilles, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Dorval et al. 2011; Sanborn 2011a, b; 2013; 2014a; Sanborn & Heath 2014). Previous references to Panama were in error ( Sanborn 2018b).