Durangona Distant, 1911

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 : 8

Genus Durangona Distant, 1911

Durangona Distant 1911: 136 .

TYPE SPECIES.— Durangona tigrina Distant 1911: 136 . ( Rio Durango , 350 ft, NW Ecuador)

REMARKS.—The previously monotypic genus is characterized by a species with large eyes distinctly produced beyond the anterior angles of the pronotum, lateral ocelli on the posterior base of the head, the triangularly produced postclypeus, a pronotum slightly longer than the head with straight lateral surfaces confluent with adjoining pronotal sclerites between distinctly expanded pronotal collar lateral angles and narrowed anterior angles, a mesonotum about as long as the pronotum, an abdomen that is longer than the length between the apex of the head and the cruciform elevation, an abdomen that is centrally arched and with a dorsal carina, the epipleurites are reflexed towards the ventral surface without an inward V-shaped channel being formed, the male opercula cover a majority of the tympanal cavity but are separated medially, the hind wings have five apical cells, the basal cell of the fore wing is twice as long as broad, the anterior femora have three long spines with the primary spine lying flat against the femur, the pygofer lacks a dorsal beak and upper pygofer lobes, the distal shoulder can be rounded or extended to a point, the median uncus lobe is broad and apically bifurcated, and the aedeagus is long and slender ( Distant 1911; Marshall et al. 2018; below).

DISTRIBUTION.—The genus has been recorded from Colombia and Ecuador ( Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2013) with a recent addition to Peru ( Sanborn 2020b).