Taphura hastifera ( Walker, 1858a )

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the description of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records, Zootaxa 4880 (1), pp. 1-80 : 43-44

Taphura hastifera ( Walker, 1858a)

Cicada hastifera Walker 1858a: 25 . (Santarém, Pará, Brazil)

Cicada frontalis Walker 1858a: 25 . (Pará, Brazil)

REMARKS.—A wide ranging species that is often common in collections. The claspers diverge laterally from their base and form a claw-like terminus and the basal pygofer lobes are reduced. The abdominal tergites lack the anterior transverse piceous mark in T. hastifera that is found in T. crispula . The transverse mark in the pronotal ambient fissure is a single mark in T. hastifera but split into three parts in T. sauliensis whose claspers bifurcate at the terminus rather than being claw-like ( Sanborn 2017a).

DISTRIBUTION.—This is a species that ranges over much of South America. It is currently known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela (Metcalf 1963; Sanborn 2013; 2017a; 2018c; 2019b; 2020b; Sanborn & Heath 2014). The species is known from Nap province in Ecuador ( Sanborn 2017a)

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— “ ECUADOR: Napo / Prov. 25km.e.Puerto / Napo, 450m. ix–1997 // B.&B. Valentin coll. // Jatun Sacha / Bio/ Reserve / u-v light // Valentine / Coll’n / Rec. 2016” seven males and six females ( FSCA), one male and one female ( AFSC); “ ECUADOR: Napo Province / Misahualli Jungle Lodge area, jct. of / Rio Napo & Rio Misahualli , 1650- / 1900’ elev. S 1º 2’ 4.2”, W 77º 39’ / 49.2”, 5–12:IX:1998. C. & K. / Messenger ” nine males and three females ( UNSM), one female ( AFSC); “ ECUADOR: Napo Prov. / Jatun Sacha Biological Station / 77º 37’ W, 1º 04’ S, VII–24–26–1998 / lowland rainforest, 450 m / Ratcliffe, Jameson, Smith, Villatoro ” eleven males ( UNSM), one male ( AFSC); “ ECUADOR: Napo Province / Misahualli Jungle Lodge area, jct. of / Rio Napo & Rio Misahualli , 1650– / 1900’ elev. S 1º 2’ 4.2”, W 77º 39’ / 49.2”, 13–20:IX:1998. C. & K. / Messenger ” four males and one female ( UNSM); “ ECUADOR: Prov. Napo / vic. Puerto Misahualli , / 1650– 1900’ ft., 6–19–IX– / 1998 J.E. Eger, coll. // 1º 2’ 4.2” S lat. / 77º 39’ 49.2” W lon. / Mercury vapor & / Ultraviolet lights ” one female ( AFSC); “ ECUADOR: Napo Prov. / Misahualli / 7 January 1989 / coll: B. A. Baugh / mercury vapor light ” one male and one female ( UMRM); “ ECUADOR / Misahualli / ~ 350 m / 8–18 October 2001 / Mark Churchill coll.” one male and two females ( MSUC).