Herrera Distant, 1905c

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 : 554

Genus Herrera Distant, 1905c new record

Herrera Distant 1905c: 486 .

Type species. Cicada marginella Walker 1858a: 21 . (Orizaba, Vera Cruz, Mexico)

Remarks. Distant (1905c) distinguished Herrera by a head about as wide as mesonotum, vertex longer than frons, pronotum about as long as mesonotum, abdomen about as long as distance from apex of the head to posterior cruciform elevation, small male opercula, strongly spined fore femora, and fore wing width being slightly more than half fore wing length but the fore wing width can be as little as one third in some species. The relative length of the pronotum to the mesonotum, the fore wing width ratio and the size of the male opercula have become more variable as a greater number of species has been described.

Distribution. The diversity of the genus was more than doubled recently with the description and reassignment of multiple species and the range expanded from what was a genus restricted to Central America and the Caribbean to one that has now been reported from much of the Neotropical region ( Sanborn & Heath 2014; Sanborn 2019a, b; 2020a, b, c, d; 2020e). Species of the genus have been recorded from Argentina, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Panama (Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2013; 2014; 2020e; Sanborn & Heath 2014). The first records for Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru ( Sanborn 2019a, b; 2020b, c, d), and Venezuela ( Sanborn 2020a) were reported only recently.