Proarna olivieri Metcalf, 1963a

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Trinidad and Tobago including the description of three new species and seven new records, with new records for several additional Caribbean Islands, Zootaxa 4838 (4), pp. 535-565 : 540-541

Proarna olivieri Metcalf, 1963a

Cicada albida Olivier 1790: 755 . (Cape of Good Hope, Suriname)

Proarna olivieri Metcalf 1963a nom. nov. pro Cicada albida Olivier, 1790 nec Cicada albida Gmelin, 1789: 380 .

Remarks. This is the larger of the two Trinidadian Proarna species with body lengths of 22–24 mm. The costal margin is curved at the base in this species instead of being straight as it is in the smaller P. hilaris .

Distribution. The species has been reported from Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a; 2013). Distant (1881a), Jacobi (1907), Cullen (1974) and Sanborn (2007a, b; 2010) reported the species from Trinidad but without specific locality data.

Material examined. “ Petit Valley / TRINIDAD / Station No. 1 / 10 June 1970 // T.E. Rogers/Coll.” one female ( FSCA); “ Petit Valley / TRINIDAD / Station No. 1 / 8 Aug 1973 // T.E. Rogers/Coll.” one male ( AFSC) “ Petit Valley / TRINIDAD / Station No. 1 / 7 Aug 1972 // T.E. Rogers/Coll.” one male ( AFSC).