Coata Distant, 1906b

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the description of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records, Zootaxa 4880 (1), pp. 1-80 : 67-68

Genus Coata Distant, 1906b

Coata Distant 1906b: 30 .

TYPE SPECIES.— Coata facialis Distant 1906b: 31 . ( Santa Inéz , Quito, and an undetermined locality in Ecuador)

REMARKS.— Distant (1906b) characterized species of the genus as those with a head that is not as wide as the mesonotum, a postclypeus with a strong medial ridge, lateral pronotal margins that are convexly angulate, a pronotum that is shorter than the mesonotum, the presence of a broad cruciform elevation, an abdomen whose length is longer than the length from the apex of the postclypeus to the posterior cruciform elevation and is wider than the pronotum, epipleurites that are reflexed ventrally, fore wings that are almost three times as long as broad with broad radial and ulnar cells producing an ovoid fore wing, and a proximally widened costal margin.

DISTRIBUTION.—The genus is currently known from Colombia and Ecuador ( Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2013). It has been reported from Santa Inéz and Quito in Pichincha province, Ecuador.