Proarna insignis Distant, 1881

Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), Zootaxa 3883 (1), pp. 1-94 : 56-57

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8187092
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scientific name	Proarna insignis Distant, 1881
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Proarna insignis Distant, 1881 View in CoL

Proarna albida insignis Distant 1881: 12 View in CoL (type material examined).

Type locality. Nicaragua and Panama.

Remarks. The species is restricted to the grasslands of the cloud forest habitat in Argentina ( Sanborn et al. 1995b; 2011a). The species was recorded from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2006a; 2007a; 2007b; 2010a; 2011b). We collected specimens in Salta Province. The species is associated with the clearings in the cloud forests of the Yunga floristic province ( Sanborn et al. 2011a).

New provincial records. Salta, 3.5 km So. of Grl. Enrique Mosconi , 10-I-1988, Heath-Sanborn-Noriega Coll. (12 males, eight females, MSHC, one male, one female, AFSC) ;

References

Distant, W. L. (1881) Rhynchota: Homoptera. Biologia Centrali-Americana; contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America, Part 15, 1, 1 - 16. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1038 / 069338 a 0

Metcalf, Z. P. (1963 a) General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 1. Cicadidae. Section I. Tibiceninae. North Carolina State College Contribution, 1502, 1 - 585.

Sanborn, A. F., Heath, M. S., Heath, J. E. & Noriega, F. G. (1995 b) Diurnal activity, temperature responses and endothermy in three South American cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae: Dorisiana bonaerensis, Quesada gigas, and Fidicina mannifera). Journal of Thermal Biology, 20, 451 - 460. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / 0306 - 4565 (95) 00004 - g

Sanborn, A. F. (2006 a) New records for the cicada fauna from four Central American countries (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Florida Entomologist, 89, 75 - 79. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1653 / 0015 - 4040 (2006) 89 [75: nrftcf] 2.0. co; 2

Sanborn, A. F. (2007 a) Additions to the cicada fauna of Venezuela with the description of a new species and checklist of the Venezuelan cicada fauna (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Zootaxa, 1503, 21 - 32.

Sanborn, A. F. (2007 b) New species, new records and checklist of cicadas from Mexico (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Zootaxa, 1651, 1 - 42. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5252 / z 2011 n 3 a 6

Sanborn, A. F. (2010 a) The cicadas of Colombia including new records and the description of a new species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Journal of Natural History, 44, 1577 - 1607. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931003760046

Sanborn, A. F., Heath, J. E., Phillips, P. K., Heath, M. S. & Noriega, F. G. (2011 a) Thermal adaptation and diversity in tropical ecosystems: evidence from cicadas (Hemiptera, Cicadidae). PLoS ONE, 6 (12), e 29368. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0029368

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
SuperFamily	Cicadoidea
Family	Cicadidae
SubFamily	Cicadinae
Tribe	Fidicinini
SubTribe	Guyalnina
Genus	Proarna