Taphura sauliensis Boulard, 1971

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Trinidad and Tobago including the description of three new species and seven new records, with new records for several additional Caribbean Islands, Zootaxa 4838 (4), pp. 535-565 : 549

Taphura sauliensis Boulard, 1971

Taphura sauliensis Boulard 1971: 688 . (Saul, center of village, French Guiana)

Remarks. Specimens of T. sauliensis can be distinguished by the transverse mark in the pronotal ambient fissure split into three parts, male claspers that bifurcate at the terminus and angle towards the midline, and the notch in female abdominal sternite VII has a straight lateral margin.

Distribution. The species is currently known from Ecuador, French Guiana, Colombia, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago ( Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2013; 2017a; 2020b, d) with a recent range expansion into Venezuela ( Sanborn 2020a). The species was recently added to the fauna of Trinidad and Tobago ( Sanborn 2017a).

Material examined. “ TRINIDAD: 3.3 mi / SSW of Talparo / VI - 7 - 1991 // B.K. Dozier /Collector” one male ( AFSC) ; “ TRINIDAD: Simla Field / Sta., Arima Valley / 20 - VI - 13 – VII - 1977 // P. Feinsinger / Insect Flight Trap ” one male ( AFSC) ; “ TRINIDAD: Arima Valley /Simla, W. Beebe Tropical / Res. Sta., 27 - VI – 3 - VII - 1978 /H. V. Weems, Jr.” one female ( FSCA), one male ( AFSC); “ TRINIDAD: Arima Valley /Simla, W. Bebe (sic) Tropical / Res. Sta., blacklight,/ 27 - June – 3 - July - 1978 /C. & H. V. Weems, Jr.” one male ( FSCA), one female ( AFSC) ; “ Asa Wright Nature Ctr. / 7.5 mi. N. of Arima on/ Blanchisseuse Road / Trinidad, W.I./ June 26, 1985 / P.J. Clausen ” one male ( AFSC) ; “ Asa Wright Nature Ctr. / 7.5 mi. N. of Arima on/ Blanchisseuse Road / Trinidad, W.I./ June 27, 1985 / P.J. Clausen ” one male ( AFSC) ; “ Asa Wright Nature Ctr. / 7.5 mi. N. of Arima on/ Blanchisseuse Road / Trinidad, W.I./ June 25, 1985 / P.J. Clausen ” two males and one female ( AFSC) ; “ Asa Wright Nature Ctr. / 7.5 mi. N. of Arima on/ Blanchisseuse Road / Trinidad, W.I./ June 22 – 24, 1984 / P.J. Clausen ” one male and three females ( AFSC) ; “ Asa Wright Nature Ctr. / 7.5 mi. N. of Arima on/ Blanchisseuse Road / Trinidad, W.I./ June 23, 1985 / P.J. Clausen ” three males ( AFSC) ; “ Asa Wright Nature Ctr. / 7.5 mi. N. of Arima on/ Blanchisseuse Road / Trinidad, W.I./ June 26, 1984 / P.J. Clausen ” one male ( AFSC) ; “ Asa Wright Nature Ctr. / 7.5 mi. N. of Arima on/ Blanchisseuse Road / Trinidad, W.I./ June 20, 1984 / P.J. Clausen ” one male ( AFSC) .