Herrera Distant, 1905c

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 : 64-65

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Genus Herrera Distant, 1905c View in CoL

Herrera Distant 1905c: 486 View in CoL .

TYPE SPECIES.— Cicada marginella Walker 1858a: 21 View in CoL . ( Orizaba , Vera Cruz, Mexico)

REMARKS.—The characters used by Distant (1905c) to distinguish species of Herrera are a head that about as wide as the mesonotum, a vertex that is longer than the frons, a pronotum that is about as long as the mesonotum, an abdomen that is about as long as the distance from the apex of the head to the posterior cruciform elevation, small male opercula, strongly spined fore femora, and a fore wing width that is slightly greater than half the fore wing length. The fore wing width can be as little as one third the length in some species and the male opercula can be relatively large in some species as these characters have become more variable as more species have been described.

DISTRIBUTION.—Species of the genus have been recorded from Argentina, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Panama ( Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2013; 2014; Sanborn and Heath 2014; Sanborn 2020d). The first records for Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Peru and Venezuela were reported only recently ( Sanborn 2019b, c; 2020a, b, c) along with the first record for Ecuador ( Sanborn 2020b). These records continue to connect the previously disjunct populations in southern South America and Central America and more than doubled the known diversity of the genus.

References

Distant, W. L. (1905 c) Rhynchotal notes XXXII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, 15, 478 - 486. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745480509442837

Metcalf, Z. P. (1963 c) General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 2. Tibicinidae. North Carolina State College Contribution, 1564, i-vi + 1 - 492.

Sanborn, A. F. & Heath, M. S. (2014) The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Zootaxa, 3883 (1), 1 - 94. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3883.1.1

Sanborn, A. F. (2019 b) The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records. Zootaxa, 4655 (1), 1 - 104. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4655.1.1

Sanborn, A. F. (2020 d) A new species of Herrera Distant, 1905 (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae: Carinetini) from Panama with new records for two additional species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 122. [in press]

Sanborn, A. F. (2020 b) The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Peru including the descriptions of twenty-four new species, three new synonymies, and thirty-seven new records. Zootaxa, 4785 (1), 1 - 129. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4785.1.1

Walker, F. (1858 a) List of the specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Supplement. British Museum Trustees, London, 307 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9063