Chilecicada occidentis ( Walker, 1850 )

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 : 71

Chilecicada occidentis ( Walker, 1850)

Cicada occidentis Walker 1850: 225 . (West Coast of America)

Cicada crassimargo Spinola 1852: 241 . ( Chile)

Tibicen crassimargo (non Spinola) Goding 1925: 10, 20.

REMARKS.—This species is restricted to central Chile ( Sanborn 2014b). The locality reported by Goding (1925) is a port on the coast so the species was either transported into the country accidentally or it was misidentified. Goding (1925) describes a small, yellowish species in his key that does not match the piceous and orange coloration of Chilecicada occidentis . It is, therefore, more likely the species was misidentified and a Cicadettinae based on the characters used to distinguish it in the key in Goding (1925). I cannot narrow the possibilities further as there is no definition of small in Goding (1925).

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported only from Chile ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2014b).