Alarcta bahiensis ( Torres, 1942 )

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 : 78

Alarcta bahiensis ( Torres, 1942)

Tettigades bahiensis Torres 1942: 256 (type material examined).

Type locality. The holotype male does not have a locality label. However, an allotype (sic) male and the paratype males were all collected at Bahia Blanca , Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Since there is no mention of a female specimen in the description, the listing of an allotype is considered a lapsus calami. The type locality is thus Bahia Blanca.

Remarks. The species has only been reported from the type locality in Buenos Aires Province ( Torres 1942; 1958d). We collected specimens in Buenos Aires, Chubut, and Neuquén Provinces. The species is associated with the Espinal, Monte, and Pampas floristic provinces ( Sanborn et al. 2011a).

New provincial records. Chubut, Puerto Madryn , 28-XI-1986, M.S. Heath & Al Sanborn Coll., EX : Sand dunes (10 males, MSHC, one male, AFSC) ; Chubut, Puerto Madryn , 29-XI-1986, M.S. Heath & Al Sanborn Coll. (two males, MSHC) ; Chubut, Puerto Madryn , 6-XII-1986, M.S. Heath & Al Sanborn Coll. (eight males, MSHC) .