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 : 38

Quesada gigas ( Olivier, 1790)

Cicada gigas Olivier 1790: 750 (Java).

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

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

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

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

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

Distribution. This species may have the most extensive north to south range of any cicada species. Quesada gigas has been reported from as far south as central Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Antilles, the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, extending northward into 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.

Material examined. “ FRENCH GUIANA: / Sa̧l / 12-VIII-2010 / SEAG leg.” one male and three females ( AFSC); “ FRENCH GUIANA / Sa̧l Pointe-de-Vue / 15-IX-2015 / Automatic Light trap, Blue light / Soc. Ent. Antilles-Guyane leg.” two males ( AFSC); “ FRENCH GUIANA / Sa̧l Pointe-de-Vue / 13-X-2015 / Automatic Light trap, Blue light / Soc. Ent. Antilles-Guyane leg.” two females ( AFSC); “ FRENCH GUIANA / Sa̧l Pointe-de-Vue / 01-IX-2015 / Automatic Light trap, Blue light / Soc. Ent. Antilles-Guyane leg.” two males ( AFSC).