Durangona Distant, 1911

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Peru including the description of twenty-four new species, three new synonymies, and thirty-seven new records, Zootaxa 4785 (1), pp. 1-129 : 8

Genus Durangona Distant, 1911 new record

Durangona Distant 1911: 136 .

Type species. Durangona tigrina Distant 1911: 136 . (Rio Durango, 350 ft, NW Ecuador)

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

DISTRIBUTION. The genus has been recorded previously from Colombia and Ecuador ( Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2013).