Quesada Distant, 1905c

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 : 46

Genus Quesada Distant, 1905c

Quesada Distant 1905c: 478 .

Type species. Cicada gigas Olivier 1790: 750 . (Java).

REMARKS. Marshall et al. (2018) recently reassigned the genus to Fidicinini with the synonymy of the Hyantiini and assigned to the Guyalnina by Sanborn (2019b). Only Quesada in the Peruvian Fidicinini have small, partially recurving timbal covers that do not cover the timbal. The species of Quesada represent one of if not the largest Peruvian cicada species (body lengths greater than 30 mm). The genus is characterized by species with a short, triangular head, prominent, laterally projecting eyes, strongly arched pronotum with irregularly serrated angled lateral margin, abdomen being about as long as distance between apex of postclypeus and posterior cruciform elevation, convex, translucent male abdominal sternites, and fore wings about three times as long as broad ( Distant 1905c; Sanborn & Heath 2017).

DISTRIBUTION. Species of the genus have been reported from much of the New World with records from the Antilles, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad & Tobago, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the West Indies ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011b; 2013; 2014a; 2018b; 2019b; Sanborn & Heath 2014; Reis et al. 2015; Maccagnan et al. 2017).