Ariasa colombiae ( Distant, 1892 )

Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), Zootaxa 3883 (1), pp. 1-94 : 64

Ariasa colombiae ( Distant, 1892) . New record.

Tympanoterpes colombiae Distant 1892: 60 (type material examined).

Type locality. Manaure and Bogota, Colombia and Venezuela.

Remarks. The species was reported previously from Colombia and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2007a; 2010a). We collected specimens in Jujuy Province. The species is associated with the Chaco floristic province ( Sanborn et al. 2011a).

Material examined. Jujuy Province, 5 km South of Fraile Pintado , 2-I-1987, F. Noriega coll. (one male, AFSC) ; Jujuy Province, 5 km South of Fraile Pintado , 2-I-1987, Al Sanborn Coll. (one female, MSHC) ; Jujuy Province, 5 km South of Fraile Pintado , 2-I-1987, M.S. Heath Coll. (one male, MSHC) ; Jujuy Province, 5 km South of Fraile Pintado , 2-I-1987, M.S. Heath Coll. (one male, MSHC) .