Selymbria pandora Distant, 1911

Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, The cicada genus Selymbria Stål, 1861 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Tibicininae: Selymbrini): redescription including ten new species and a key to the genus, Zootaxa 4614 (3), pp. 401-448 : 440

Selymbria pandora Distant, 1911

Selymbria pandora Distant 1911: 135 .

TYPE LOCALITY. Espirito Santo, Brazil.

REMARKS. Syntypes are in the BMNH. The species can be distinguished from all but S. ahyetios and S. subolivacea by the lack of infuscation on the apex of the fore wing. This species is slightly larger (body length about 21–22 mm, wing span about 55-67 mm vs. 18.5–19.5 mm and 52.5–53.5 mm in S. ahyetios ) with the dorsal head mostly piceous rather than marked with piceous, general body coloration tawny rather than ochraceous, abdominal tergites testaceous rather than fuscous, and basal area of the wings red rather than grayish and piceous. The Brazilian S. subolivacea can be distinguished by its greenish tawny body marked with light fuscous-piceous markings, the greenish rather than the orange basal areas of the wings, the piceous markings around the ocelli do not fuse to a single spot, the lateral part of the pronotal collar is visible from the dorsal side, and the larger body size of this species (body length 27 mm, wing span 78 mm). Although the body length of the female is only slightly longer than the male, the female wing span (67 mm) is noticeably greater than that of the male (57 mm).

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported only from the type locality in Brazil ( Metcalf 1963). The previous report from Argentina (Sanborn & Heath 2104) is a misidentification as of the S. iguazuensis n. sp. that has infuscation in the fore wings.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. “ Leopoldina Esp. So / Michaelis // Arc.-Arth. SPeyer / 1898 // Selymbria / pandora ♀, / type Dist. // Type (circular label with red border) // NHMUK / 010220887 ” female syntype ( BMNH); “ Espirito Santo / Brasil / ex coll. Frushtorfer. // Selymbria ,♂, / pandora / type Dist. // Type (circular label with red border) // NHMUK / 010220888 ” male syntype ( BMNH).