Majeorona truncata Goding, 1925

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4493.1.1

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scientific name

Majeorona truncata Goding, 1925
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Majeorona truncata Goding, 1925 new record

Majeorona truncata Goding 1925: 22 .

Remarks. This is the smallest of the Majeorona species known to Panama with body lengths of about 28 mm and wing spans less than 80 mm. The green head and thorax marked with piceous with a piceous abdomen, the postclypeus not extending anteriorly beyond the supra-antennal plates when viewed from the dorsal side and the fore wings lacking infuscation on the radial and radiomedial crossveins which easily distinguish it from M. aper .

Distribution. The species has previously been reported from Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2014; Sanborn & Maes 2012; Maes et al. 2012).

Material examined for new record. “PANAMA, San Blas Pr. / Nusagandi, 28 may (sic) ’95 Cavan ” one male ( BYUC); “ PANAMA : Colón / Sierra Llorona Lodge 225m / Cerro Sta. Rita 2–3 Aug 2008 / J.B. Heppner ” one male ( FSCA).

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadidae

Genus

Majeorona