Yanga heathi ( Distant, 1899 )

Sanborn, Allen F., 2021, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) of Madagascar including a new tribe, five new genera, twelve new species, four new species synonymies, five revised species status, ten new combinations, new tribal assignments for four genera, one new subtribe synonymy, a checklist and key to the species, Zootaxa 4937 (1), pp. 1-79 : 11-12

Yanga heathi ( Distant, 1899)

Platypleura heathi Distant 1899: 475 . ( Madagascar)

Remarks.—The third of four species with the hind wings piceous or piceous-brown. It can be distinguished from Y. antiopa by the lack of lighter distal apical cells, and from the lack of white apical areas found in Y. brancsiki and Y. hova . Body length is 32–38 mm, wingspan is about 97–115 mm ( Distant 1899; specimens in hand).

Distribution.—The species is only known from Madagascar ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2013). Jacobi (1917) reported the species from Tulear, southwestern Madagascar.

Material examined.—“ MADAGASCAR: Mahajanga / Province, Parc National de / Namoroka, 16.9 km 317º NW / Vilanandro elev 100m / 12–16 Nov 2002 // 16º 24’ 24” S 045º 18’ 36” E / coll. Fisher, Griswold et al. / California Acad. of Sciences / collected at light, tropical dry / forest coll. Code: BLF6585 // CASENT / 3007922” one male ( AFSC) ; “ MADAGASCAR: Mahajanga / Prov: Parc National Tsingy / de Bemaraha, 3.4 km 93º E / Bekopaka , Tombeau Vazimba / Elev 50m 6–10 Nov 2001 // 19º 8’ 31” S 44º 49’ 41” E / coll. Fisher, Griswold et al. / California Acad. of Sciences / collected at light, tropical dry / forest coll. Code: BLF4235 // CASENT / 3004687” one male ( AFSC) ; “ MADAGASCAR: Mahajanga / Prov: Parc National Tsingy / de Bemaraha, 3.4 km 93º E / Bekopaka , Tombeau Vazimba / Elev 50m 6–10 Nov 2001 // 19º 8’ 31” S 44º 49’ 41” E / coll. Fisher, Griswold et al. / California Acad. of Sciences / collected at light, tropical dry / forest coll. Code: BLF4235 // CASENT / 3004690” one male ( AFSC) ; “ MADAGASCAR: Mahajanga / Prov: Parc National Tsingy / de Bemaraha, 3.4 km 93º E / Bekopaka , Tombeau Vazimba / Elev 50m 6–10 Nov 2001 // 19º 8’ 31” S 44º 49’ 41” E / coll. Fisher, Griswold et al. / California Acad. of Sciences / collected at light, tropical dry / forest coll. Code: BLF4235 // CASENT / 3004676” one female ( AFSC) ; “ MADAGASCAR: Mahajanga / Province, Parc National de / Namoroka , 16.9 km 317º NW / Vilanandro elev 100m / 12–16 Nov 2002 // 16º 24’ 24” S 045º 18’ 36” E / coll. Fisher, Griswold et al. / California Acad. of Sciences / collected at light, tropical dry / forest coll. Code: BLF6585 // CASENT / 3008082” one female ( AFSC) ; “ Madagascar: Toliara Prov. / Forêt de Kirindy, 15.5 km 64º / ENE Marofandilia, elev 100m / 20º 2’ 42”S 44º 39’ 44” E / 28 Nov.—3 Dec. 2001 // coll: Fisher, Griswold et al. / California Acad. of Sciences / at light—in tropical dry forest / collection code: BLF4603 // CASENT / 3004661” one female ( AFSC) .