Proarna insignis Distant, 1881a

Sanborn, Allen F., 2010, The cicadas of Colombia including new records and the description of a new species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), Journal of Natural History 44 (25 - 26), pp. 1577-1607 : 1587

Proarna insignis Distant, 1881a

[ Proarna albida] insignis Distant, 1881a: 12 .

Proarna insignis Distant, 1905d: 141 .

This species has a wide geographic distribution being reported from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Argentina and South America ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels and van der Laan 1985; Sanborn et al. 1995a; Sanborn 2006b, 2007a,b, 2009). It has been reported from the Dept. Magdalena ( Davis 1935) and the Valle de Medellín and Magdalena ( Daniel 1946) in Colombia.

Material examined. “ Colombia Dept Valle, 9 km N of Dagua, Oleoducto Pacifico, RE Woodruff, 27 II 1969, Blacklight trap ” (two female, FSCA); “ Colombia, Medellin, March 1988, Col. By Louis Posada ” (one female, AFSC); “ Curiche River , Chocó Dept., Colombia. 26/4/67 ” (one female, AFSC); “ COLOMBIA: Amazon River , Monkey Island near Leticia, 20-23-IX-1979, Mac A. Tidwell ” (one female, AFSC); “ Don Diego (100 ft.), Dept. Magdalena, Colombia, S.A.” (one female, AFSC). Photograph of a female “ COLOMBIA Punta Soldado , Valle Abr 8/ 2000, leg. Salazar J.I. V.” ( UNCC).