Tympanoterpes virgulata Sanborn, 2019b

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 : 23

Tympanoterpes virgulata Sanborn, 2019b

Tympanoterpes virgulata Sanborn 2019b: 21 . (3.7 km SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora & Fauna, 430m, Santa Cruz, Bolivia)

REMARKS. The specimens from Peru in the type series represented the first record of the genus in Peru ( Sanborn 2019b). The generic characters will separate the species from the other Peruvian cicadas. Tympanoterpes virgulata can also be recognized by the abdominal segments 3 and 4 being wider than the mesothorax and the transverse piceous fasciae on the anterodorsal abdominal tergites.

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported from Bolivia and Peru ( Sanborn 2019b).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. “ PERU Alt.: 670m / Huanuco Dept., / Tingo Maria / 8-IX-1971 JSchuster” one female ( FSCA, paratype); “ PERU Madre de Dios / nr Puerto Maldonado / Posadas Amazonas / S12 48.115 W69 18.019 / 609ft;(30-IX)–(3-X)-2004 / C R Bartlett” three males and two females ( UDCC, paratypes), three males and one female ( AFSC, paratypes); “ 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 male ( UDCC, paratype); “ PERU Madre de Dios / Tambopata Res. Zone / Tambopata Research / Cntr on Rio Tambopata // S13 08.305 W69 36.502 / 622 ft (3–7)- X-2004 / CRBartlett” one male and one female ( UDCC, paratypes), one female ( AFSC, paratype); “ PERU. Loreto / Tingo Maria / 11 Feb. 1977 / J. R. Robertson” one female ( LACM) .