Ariasa alboapicata (Distant, 1905)

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 : 63-64

Ariasa alboapicata (Distant, 1905)

Tympanoterpes alboapicata Distant 1905a: 313 (type material examined).

Type locality. Argentina.

Remarks. The species currently is known only from Argentina ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2013). It has been reported from Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, and Tucumán Provinces in Argentina ( Hayward 1960; Bolcatto et al. 2006; De Santis et al. 2007). We collected specimens in Chaco, Córdoba, Entre Rios, La Rioja, San Juan, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, and Tucumán Provinces. The species is associated with the Chaco and Espinal floristic provinces ( Sanborn et al. 2011a).

New provincial records. Chaco, Lapachito , 8 km NE Makale 22-XII-1986, F. Noriega coll. (one male, MSHC) ; Cordoba, Villa Dolores , 5-XII-1981, M.S. & J.E. Heath & F. Noriega coll., EX: Prosopis (nine males, MSHC) ; Cordoba, 18 km SW Soto , 14-XII-1986, Al Sanborn Coll. (one male, MSHC) ; Cordoba, 18 km SW Soto , 14-XII- 1986, J.E. & M.S. Heath Coll., EX: Larrea (one male, MSHC) ; Cordoba, 18 km SW Soto , 14-XII-1986, M.S. & J.E. Heath Coll., EX: Larrea (one male, MSHC) ; Cordoba, 18 km SW Soto , 14-XII-1986, F. Noriega coll., EX: Larrea (one male, MSHC) ; Entre Rios, Dto. Federacion , Ruta 14, 2.5 km So. of Corrientes, 4-I-1988, Heath- Sanborn-Noriega Coll. (three males, MSHC, one male, AFSC) ; Entre Rios, Dto. Federacion , Ruta 14, 2.5 km So. of Corrientes, 4-I-1988, J.E. Heath Coll. (two males, MSHC) ; Entre Rios, Dto. Federacion , Ruta 14, 2.5 km So. of Corrientes, 4-I-1988, F. Noriega coll. (one male, MSHC) ; Entre Rios, Dto. Federacion , Ruta 14, 2.5 km So. of Corrientes, 4-I-1988, Al Sanborn Coll. (one male, MSHC) ; La Rioja, South edge of La Rioja, 5-I-1987, M.S. & J.E. Heath Coll. (one male, MSHC) ; La Rioja, Dto. Capital , 6.5 km NE Bozan, 19-I-1988, Heath-Sanborn-Noriega Coll. (one male MSHC) ; La Rioja, 5 km South of San Antonio on Provincial Ruta 29, 8-I-1992, A. Sanborn Coll. (one male, AFSC) ; San Juan, 5 km S San Agustin de Valle Fertil , 8-I-1987, Al Sanborn Coll. (one male, MSHC) ; Prov . San Luis, Ruta 141, 2 km East of Junction with Ruta 20, 7-I-1992, A. Sanborn Coll. (four males, AFSC) .