Zammara hertha Schmidt, 1919

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 : 10

Zammara hertha Schmidt, 1919

Zammara hertha Schmidt 1919: 386 . (Chanchamayo, Peru and Canelos, Ecuador)

Zammara tympanum (non Fabricius) Jacobi 1951: 89.

REMARKS. As the only Peruvian representative of the genus, the generic characters will distinguish the species from other Peruvian cicadas. The most obvious differences are the lateral expansion of the pronotum and two tarsomeres. The species can be distinguished from other species of Zammara by the heart-shaped infuscation on the apex of fore wing ulnar cell 2 extending into proximal apical cell 4 and the middle of ulnar cell 1 ( Goemans 2016). The reference to Z. tympanum ( Fabricius, 1803) by Jacobi (1951) is considered a reference to Z. hertha , the only described species of Zammara currently known to inhabit Peru ( Goemans 2016).

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported from Ecuador and Peru ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2013; Goemans 2016). This would include the specimens identified as Z. tympanum ( Fabricius, 1803) from Huanaco, Chanchamayo and Pachita in Jacobi (1907; 1951). Goemans (2016) reported specimens from Chanchamayo (lectotype) and Erika near Salvation, Manu, Madre de Dios province (paralectotype).