Quesada Distant, 1905c

Sanborn, Allen F., 2018, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records, Zootaxa 4493 (1), pp. 1-69 : 38

Genus Quesada Distant, 1905c

Quesada Distant 1905c: 478 .

TYPE SPECIES. Cicada gigas Olivier 1790: 750 . (Java).

Remarks. The genus was recently reassigned to Fidicinini with the synonymy of the Hyantiini ( Marshall et al. 2018). Only Quesada and Mura in the Panamanian Fidicinini have small timbal covers that recurve at least partially and do not cover the timbal. Specimens of Quesada can be distinguished from the species of Mura Distant, 1905a by the much larger body size (body lengths greater than 30 mm), a timbal cover that is recurved for only part of its length with an anterior triangular extension, the basal cell of the fore wing is only slightly longer than broad, the abdomen is about as long as the distance between the anterior head and posterior cruciform elevation, and the pygofer angles medially towards the distal terminus. The species emerges in the dry season during mid-February with emergence appearing to be dependent on soil moisture levels but is independent of when the last of the rains actually occurred ( Wolda 1984).

Distribution. The two species of the genus have been reported from the Antilles, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad & Tobago, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the West Indies ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011b; 2013; 2014; Sanborn & Heath 2014; Reis et al. 2015; Maccagnan et al. 2017).