Proarna palisoti ( Metcalf, 1963a )

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Trinidad and Tobago including the description of three new species and seven new records, with new records for several additional Caribbean Islands, Zootaxa 4838 (4), pp. 535-565 : 559

Proarna palisoti ( Metcalf, 1963a)

Cicada bicolor Palisot de Beauvois 1813: 132 , Pl. XX, Fig. 2 . (Santo Domingo).

Cicada palisoti Metcalf 1963a nom. nov. pro Cicada bicolor Palisot de Beauvois, 1813 nec Cicada bicolor Olivier, 1790: 403 .

Remarks. Ramos (1983) reassigned the species to Proarna . It is intermediate in size (body length about 20 mm) for a species of Proarna with white pubescent spots on the posterolateral thorax at the junction of the hind wing.

Distribution. The species has been recorded previously from the Dominican Republic ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2013).

Material examined for new record for Navarro Island. “ NAVASSA ISLAND; south/part of RR trench, 72 m./ 18 o 23.78’ N 75 o 00.85’, 29 July 1998 / Collrs. W. E. Steiner,/ J.M. Swearingen, et al./At black light in/open mixed forest with exposed rock and patchy litter” one male ( AFSC).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Carineta trinidadensis n. sp.: A, holotype male and paratype female habitus; B, holotype male dorsum; C, holotype male timbal; D, holotype male operculum; E, paratype female operculum; F, holotype male lateral view of genitalia; G, holotype male posterior view of genitalia; H, paratype female lateral view of genitalia; I, paratype female ventral view of genitalia. Scale bar: A, 2 cm; B, 5 mm; C–E, 2 mm; F–G, 1 mm; H–I, 2 mm.