Proarna guttulosa ( Walker, 1858 )

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 : 21

Proarna guttulosa ( Walker, 1858)

Cicada guttulosa Walker 1858b: 20 . (unknown locality)

REMARKS. This is the largest of the Peruvian Proarna species with some females reaching body lengths of 31 mm or more. The costal margin is unique for the Peruvian species of Proarna in that it is curved from the base rather than being straight. The size combined with the curved costal margin makes the species fairly easy to distinguish but the lack of infuscation on the nodal line of the fore wing, the more elongate body, and the narrower pronotum are also useful in distinguishing it from P. grisea .

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and South America ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2013) with recent records expanding the distribution to include Bolivia ( Sanborn 2019b). The species has been reported from Pachitea, Peru ( Jacobi 1907; 1951). Pogue (1996) reported the species from Pakitza and Tambopata.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. “ PERU Madre de Dios / nr Puerto Maldonado / Posadas Amazonas / lodge@ Rio Tambopata / S12 48.115 W69 18.019 / 609ft;(7–10)- X-2004 / C R Bartlett ” four females ( UDCC); “ PERU Madre de Dios / nr Puerto Maldonado / Posadas Amazonas / lodge@ Rio Tambopata / S12 48.115 W69 18.019 / 609ft;(7–10)- X-2004 / C R Bartlett ” one female ( AFSC); “ PERU: Pucallpa , / Loreto / 11 July 1962 / W. T. Van Velzen ” one female ( AFSC); “ PERU: Pucallpa , / Loreto / 23 July 1962 / W. T. Van Velzen ” one female ( AFSC); “ PERU: Pucallpa , / Loreto / 5 August 1962 / W. T. Van Velzen ” one male ( AFSC); “ PERU: / Loreto, Pucallpa / Yarinacocha / 28 July 1962 / W. T. Van Velzen ” one female ( AFSC); “ PERU: / Huallaga , / Aguaytia , 400 M. / August 1962 / F H. Walz ” four females ( AFSC); “ PERU Madre de Dios / Rio Tambopata Res. / 30 km (air) SW Puerto / Maldonado 290m 20–31 / - X-1982 R. Wilkerson” three female ( AFSC); “ PERU Madre de Dios / Rio Tambopata Res. / 30 km (air) SW Puerto / Maldonado 290m 1–14- / XI-1982 R. Wilkerson” three female ( AFSC); “ PERU: Loreto Prov.: / Explorama Lodge, 25mi. / N.E. Iquitos / 19, 21-VII-1989 / G.B. Edwards / Amazon rainforest” one male ( AFSC) .