Proarna insignis Distant, 1881

Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), Zootaxa 3883 (1), pp. 1-94 : 56-57

Proarna insignis Distant, 1881

Proarna albida insignis Distant 1881: 12 (type material examined).

Type locality. Nicaragua and Panama.

Remarks. The species is restricted to the grasslands of the cloud forest habitat in Argentina ( Sanborn et al. 1995b; 2011a). The species was recorded from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2006a; 2007a; 2007b; 2010a; 2011b). We collected specimens in Salta Province. The species is associated with the clearings in the cloud forests of the Yunga floristic province ( Sanborn et al. 2011a).

New provincial records. Salta, 3.5 km So. of Grl. Enrique Mosconi , 10-I-1988, Heath-Sanborn-Noriega Coll. (12 males, eight females, MSHC, one male, one female, AFSC) ;