Quesada gigas ( Olivier, 1790 )

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 : 67

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scientific name	Quesada gigas ( Olivier, 1790 )
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Quesada gigas ( Olivier, 1790) View in CoL View at ENA

Cicada gigas Olivier 1790: 750 View in CoL .

Cicada triupsilon Walker 1850: 103 View in CoL (type material examined).

Cicada sonans Walker 1850: 104 View in CoL (type material examined).

Cicada consonans Walker 1850: 106 View in CoL .

Cicada vibrans Walker 1850: 107 View in CoL .

Cicada grossa View in CoL [nec Fabricius] Stål 1861: 614.

Tympanoterpes sibilatrix Berg 1879: 141 View in CoL .

Type locality. Java is mistakenly listed as the type locality. The species is restricted to the New World.

Remarks. The species is distributed from central Argentina to southern Texas in the New World with records of specimens from the Antilles, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, United States, Venezuela, and the West Indies ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2001; 2006b; 2007a; 2007b; 2010a; 2011a; 2011b; Sueur 2002; Sanborn & Maes 2012). The species has been reported in Catamarca, Chaco, Córdoba, Corrientes, La Rioja, Misiones, Salta, San Luis, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, and Tucumán ( Berg 1879; Torres 1945b; Hayward 1960; Sanborn et al. 1995b; Bolcatto et al. 2006; De Santis et al. 2006; 2007). We collected specimens in Córdoba, Entre Rios, Formosa, Salta, Santiago del Estero, and Tucumán Provinces. The species was collected in the Yunga, Paranense, Chaco, Monte, and Espinal floristic provinces ( Sanborn et al. 2011a) and is endothermic ( Sanborn et al. 1995b).

New provincial records. Entre Rios, Rt. 14, 2.5 km S Corrientes, 4-I-1988, F. Noriega Coll. (one female, MSHC); Entre Rios, Rt. 14, 2.5 km S Corrientes, 4-I-1988, J.E. Heath Coll. (one male, MSHC); Formosa, 8 km S Tatane, 28-XII-1986, Al Sanborn & F. Noriega Coll. (one male, MSHC).

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