Guyalna bicolor
| Guyalna bicolor | |
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| Moulting adult; pictured in Costa Rica. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cicadidae |
| Genus: | Guyalna |
| Species: | G. bicolor
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| Binomial name | |
| Guyalna bicolor (Olivier, 1790)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Guyalna bicolor is a species of cicada found in Latin America.
Description
Guillaume-Antoine Olivier provided an original description in 1790. The beginning of his French description read: "the body of this cicada is one inch long and almost three wide, when the wings are extended; it is of stocky shape, and the head is of a pale yellow colour."[a][2]
Distribution
Olivier described the species from Cayenne, French Guiana; today the species is understood to be found in French Guiana, Panama, Suriname,[3] Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Brazil and Colombia.[1]
Notes
- ^ Le corps de cette Cigale a un pouce de longueur, & près de trois de largeur, lorsque les aîles sont étendues ; elle est d’une forme ramassée, la tête est d’un jaune pâle.
References
- ^ a b Sanborn A. F. (2016). "Five new species, a new genus and a new record of cicadas from French Guiana with four new combinations and three new synonymies (Insecta, Hemiptera, Cicadoidea, Cicadidae)." Zoosystema 38 (2): 177-199. doi:10.5252/z2016n2a2
- ^ Olivier, Guillaume-Antoine (1790). Encyclopédie méthodique: Histoire naturelle.
- ^ Sanborn, Allen F. (2020-11-20). "The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Suriname including the description of two new species, five new combinations, and three new records". Zootaxa. 4881 (3). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4881.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334.