Quesada gigas ( Olivier, 1790 )

Sanborn, Allen F., 2023, Two new species and two new records for cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from French Guiana, with an updated faunal list of French Guiana and the first synoptic list for Guyana, Zootaxa 5368 (1), pp. 1-74 : 64

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5368.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10285674
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scientific name	Quesada gigas ( Olivier, 1790 )
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Quesada gigas ( Olivier, 1790) View in CoL

Cicada gigas Olivier 1790: 750 View in CoL (Java).

Cicada triupsilon Walker 1850: 103 View in CoL (Unknown collection locality).

Cicada sonans Walker 1850: 104 View in CoL (Unknown collection locality).

Cicada consonans Walker 1850: 106 View in CoL (West Coast of America).

Cicada vibrans Walker 1850: 107 View in CoL (Unknown collection locality).

Tympanoterpes sibilarix Berg 1879: 141 ( Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia).

Distribution. As described above, Quesada gigas has been reported from extends from as far south as central Argentina throughout South and Central America to the southern United States ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011 a, 2013, 2014, 2018b, 2019 a, 2020a, c, d, e; Sanborn & Heath 2014; Nunes et al. 2023). Canada ( Sanborn & Heath 2017), Suriname ( Sanborn 2020d), and Chile ( Sanborn 2021b) are the only countries in the New World without a record of the species.