Alarcta minuta ( Torres, 1949 )

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 : 79

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scientific name	Alarcta minuta ( Torres, 1949 )
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Alarcta minuta ( Torres, 1949) View in CoL

Tettigades minuta Torres 1949: 187 View in CoL (type material examined).

Type locality. Central Pampa, La Pampa Province, Argentina.

Remarks. The species was recorded previously only from the type locality in La Pampa Province ( Torres 1949; 1958d). We collected specimens in Buenos Aires, La Pampa and San Juan Provinces. The species is associated with the Espinal and Monte floristic provinces ( Sanborn et al. 2011a).

New provincial records. Buenos Aires, Pehuen-Có, 17-XI-1981, J.E. & M.S. Heath (two males, MSHC) ; San Juan, Rt. 148— 22 km N Mercedes , 11-XII-1986, F. Noreiga Coll. (one male, MSHC) .

References

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

Torres, B. A. (1949) Tres nuevas especies de cicadidos del genero Tettigades. Notas del Museo de La Plata, 14, 181 - 190.

Torres, B. A. (1958 d) Nuevo genero de Homoptero Alarcta Torres (Auchenorrhyncha-Cicadidae). Revista del Museo de La Plata, Nueva Serie, 7 (Zoologia No. 51), 23 - 34.