Quesada gigas (Olivier, 1790)

Aoki, Camila, Lopes, Frederico Santos & Souza, Franco Leandro de, 2010, Insecta, Hemiptera, Cicadidae, Quesada gigas (Olivier, 1790), Fidicina mannifera (Fabricius, 1803), Dorisiana viridis (Olivier, 1790) and Dorisiana drewseni (Stål, 1854): first records for the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, Check List 6 (1), pp. 162-163 : 162

Quesada gigas (Olivier, 1790)

( Cicadinae : Hyantiini )

has a wide geographical distribution, with occurrences in North America, Antilles ( Metcalf 1963), and Central America ( Young 1976; 1980; 1981; Sanborn 2006). In Brazil this species is found in the states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Paraná, Ceará, Espírito Santo ( Martinelli and Zucchi 1997a), Bahia ( Marques et al. 2004), Pará, Maranhão ( Zanuncio 2004) and Distrito Federal ( Motta 2003). Among cicadas, Q. gigas has been considered to be a major pest of coffee crops ( Martinelli and Zucchi 1997b).