Orientafroinsularis loici ( Boulard, 2000 ) Sanborn, 2021

Sanborn, Allen F., 2021, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) of Madagascar including a new tribe, five new genera, twelve new species, four new species synonymies, five revised species status, ten new combinations, new tribal assignments for four genera, one new subtribe synonymy, a checklist and key to the species, Zootaxa 4937 (1), pp. 1-79 : 25

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4937.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A1DDB75B-27E5-463A-8FA6-975B89163A50

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4673229

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E58783-FF86-FFD4-46BA-FE04FB7DFCED

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Orientafroinsularis loici ( Boulard, 2000 )
status

comb. nov.

Orientafroinsularis loici ( Boulard, 2000) View in CoL n. comb.

Chremistica loici Boulard 2000: 256 View in CoL . (Remnants of dry forest, surroundings of Ambatolahy, west-central Madagascar)

Remarks.—Similar in size and appearance to O. hova n. comb. but has infuscation on the distal fore wing veins between apical cells. Body length is about 27 mm, wingspan about 74 mm ( Boulard 2000). The song is a series of short syllables of increasing intensity followed by a period of rapidly produced syllables making a constant call with amplitude modulations about every 15 ms with a peak frequency of about 9 kHz ( Boulard 2000; 2006b).

Distribution.—The species is known only from Madagascar ( Sanborn 2013). The species is only known from the type locality in the surroundings of Ambatolahy, west-central Madagascar ( Boulard 2000).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadidae

Genus

Orientafroinsularis

Loc

Orientafroinsularis loici ( Boulard, 2000 )

Sanborn, Allen F. 2021
2021
Loc

Chremistica loici

Boulard, M. 2000: 256
2000
GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF