Quesada gigas ( Olivier, 1790 )

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the description of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records, Zootaxa 4880 (1), pp. 1-80 : 33-34

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scientific name	Quesada gigas ( Olivier, 1790 )
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Cicada gigas Olivier 1790: 750 View in CoL . (Java).

Cicada triupsilon Walker 1850: 103 . (Unknown collection locality)

Cicada sonans Walker 1850: 104 . (Unknown collection locality)

Cicada consonans Walker 1850: 106 . (West Coast of America)

Cicada vibrans Walker 1850: 107 . (Unknown collection locality)

Tympanoterpes sibilarix Berg 1879: 141 .

REMARKS.—The type locality of Java is a mistake. The species is found over most of and is restricted to the New World ( Sanborn & Heath 2014; 2017).

Quesada gigas is one of if not the largest of the Ecuadorian cicadas with body lengths up to 45 mm and wingspans of 120 mm having been reported ( Sanborn & Heath 2017). The body is brown marked with piceous, the male abdomen is widest at segments 3 and 4, and male timbal covers recurve along the posterior timbal cavity forming a ribbon-like structure posterior to the timbals with a small triangular extension laterally. The song sounds like a steam whistle.

DISTRIBUTION.—This species may have the most extensive north to south range of any cicada species. It has been reported from as far south as central Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Antilles, the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, extending northward into the southern United States ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Maccagnan & Martinelli 2011; Sanborn 2011b; 2013; 2014a; 2018c; 2019b; 2020b, d, e; Maccagnan et al. 2014; Monteiro et al. 2014; Sanborn & Heath 2014; Reis et al. 2015; Maccagnan et al. 2017; Oliveira et al. 2017). The species is identified from Ecuador with no specific locality in Jacobi (1907a). Goding (1925) reported the species from Surula and Macas in Morona Santiago province.

References

Berg, C. (1879) Hemiptera Argentina (Continuacion.) Hemiptera Homoptera Latr. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, 8, 135 - 144.

Duffels, J. P. & van der Laan, P. A. (1985) Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Homoptera, Auchenorhyncha) 1956 - 1980. Series Entomologica 34. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, Dordrect, 414 pp.

Goding, F. W. (1925) Synopsis of the Cicadidae of Ecuador. Revista del Colegio Nacional Rocafuerte, 7, 1 - 34.

Jacobi, A. (1907 a) Homoptera Andina. Die Zikaden des kordillerengebietes von Sudamerika nach systematik und Verbreitung. I. Cicadidae. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Koniglichen Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Enthnographischen Museums zu Dresden, 11, 1 - 28. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930709487386

Maccagnan, D. H. B., Pitta, R. M., Lunz, A. M., Behling, M. & Martinelli, N. M. (2014) Primeiro registro de cigarra em reflorestamentos com parica no Estado de Mato Grosso Brasil. Revista de Ciencias Agrarias, 57, 451 - 454. https: // doi. org / 10.4322 / rca. 1387

Maccagnan, D. H. B., Matuo, T. K. & Martinelli, N. M. (2017) Oviposition of Quesada gigas in weed no hostess: implication in pest management. Ciencias Rurali, 47 (09), e 20101752, 1 - 4. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / 0103 - 8478 cr 20170152

Metcalf, Z. P. (1963 a) General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 1. Cicadidae. Section I. Tibiceninae. North Carolina State College Contribution, 1502, i-vii + 1 - 585.

Monteiro, O. M., Lunz, A. M., Azevedo, R. de, Junior, M. M. & Batista, T. F. V. (2014) Avaliacao de inseticida para controle da cigarra Quesada gigas em plantios de parica. Pesquisa Florestal Brasileira, 34, 169 - 172. https: // doi. org / 10.4336 / 2014. pfb. 34.78.502

Oliveira, R. R., Caramori, S. S. & Maccagnan, D. H. B. (2017) Could Fidicina mannifera (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Fidicinini) promote a resource pulse in two Brazilian Cerrado vegetation classes? Brazilian Journal of Biology, 77, 673 - 679. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / 1519 - 6984.13715

Olivier, G. A. (1790) Cigale, Cicada. Encyclopedie Methodique Histoire Naturelles Insectes, 5, 735 - 760.

Reis, P. R., Rebelles, P. P. R., Pereira, M. C., Liska, G. R. & Morais, A. R. de (2015) Eficacia do enxofre aplicado via solo no controle da cigarra Quesada gigas (Olivier) em cafeeiro. Coffee Science, Lavras, 10, 527 - 536.

Sanborn, A. F. & Heath, M. S. (2014) The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Zootaxa, 3883 (1), 1 - 94. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3883.1.1

Sanborn, A. F. & Heath, M. S. (2017) Catalogue of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) of continental North America North of Mexico, Second Edition. Thomas Say Publications in Entomology. Monographs. Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland, 302 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.3390 / d 5020166

Walker, F. (1850) List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. British Museum Trustees, London, 260 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9063