Taphura hastifera ( Walker, 1858a )

Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records, Zootaxa 4655 (1), pp. 1-104 : 53

Taphura hastifera ( Walker, 1858a)

Cicada hastifera Walker 1858a: 25 . (Santarém, Pará, Brazil)

Cicada frontalis Walker 1858a: 25 . (Pará, Brazil)

REMARKS. A wide ranging species that is often common in collections. The claspers diverge laterally from their base and form a claw-like terminus. The basal pygofer lobes are reduced. The species can be distinguished from T. demissa and T. misella by the lack of infuscation on the apex of the fore wing in these species. This species can be distinguished from T. nitida by the transverse piceous band on the anterior abdominal tergites and the drooping claspers of T. nitida ( Sanborn 2017a) .

DISTRIBUTION. The species ranges over much of South America. It is currently known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2013; 2017a; 2018c; Sanborn & Heath 2014).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. “ BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, 3.7 km / SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora / & Fauna , 430 m; 5–15–XI–2001 / coll. M.C. Thomas & B. Dozier / tropical transition forest, BLT ” 17 males and eight females ( FSCA), eight males and nine females ( AFSC); “ BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz / 3.7 km SSE Buena Vista / Hotel Flora & Fauna / 17º 29.949’ S, 63º 33.152’ W // 406 m elev., blacklight trap / Tropical transition forest, 5–15–XI–2001 / M.C. Thomas & B.K. Dozier ” two males and one female ( AFSC); “ Sta. Cruz de / la Sierra, Bol. / 450 m. / J. Steinbach // Nov. / 1910 // C.M. / Acc. 4549” one male ( CMNH); “ Prov. del Sara / Bolivia, 450 m. / J. Steinbach // Carn. Mus. / Acc. 6443” three males and one female ( CMNH); “ BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz Buena / Vista vic. Flora & Fauna Hotel / 22–26–Oct–2002 / Morris/Wappes // STDC / UDCC00001 ” one male ( UDCC).