Proarna insignis Distant 1881
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Proarna
Proarna insignis

description: Proarna insignis Distant, 1881a new record
Proarna albida var. insignis Distant 1881a: 12. (Nicaragua)
REMARKS. This species can be variable in size (body lengths 20–24 mm). Small specimens approach P. alalonga and P. strigicollis but the wings are proportionately shorter. Body coloration is also variable from green to brown marked with piceous forming a well camouflaged animal in its natural habitat. There is often a longitudinal piceous or dark brown mark on the dorsal head and prothorax. The fore wings exhibit the full complement of infuscation marks found in the genus. The species has been associated with grasses in the cloud forests from the lower levels of the Yungas floristic province in Argentina (Sanborn et al. 1995a; 2011a). The species is endothermic (Sanborn et al. 1995a) to permit activity without access to solar radiation.
DISTRIBUTION. The species has an extensive range being reported from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, and Venezuela (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2014a; 2018c; Sanborn & Maes 2012; Maes et al. 2012; Sanborn & Heath 2014).
MATERIAL EXAMINED FOR NEW RECORD. “ BOLIVIA, Santa Cruz / Dpt. Port. Del Guenda / Oct. 13–17, 2013 / Wappes & Kuckartz // Preserva Natural, aka / Snake Farm EL 400m / 17º 40’ 15”S 63º 27’ 26”W ” one male (FSCA); “ BOLIVIA: Prov. Andrés Ibáñez / Dept. de Santa Cruz, 1,369 ft. / Potrerillos del Guenda / W. of Santa Cruz // Dec. 13/15, 2009 at MV & BL / S-17.67089º/W-63.45761º / N.J. Smith, A.J. Gilbert, & / J. Aramayo Bejarano ” one female (UCDC); “ BOLIVIA: Prov. Florida / Dept. de Santa Cruz / Refugio los Volcanes / nr. Bermejo, 3.4.31 ft. // at MV & BL Dec. 4/7, 2009 / S-18.10540º/W-63.59807º / A.J Gilbert, N.J. Smith & J. / Aramayo Bejarano” one female (UCDC); “ BOLIVIA, STA. / CRUZ, Caranda / 1763 Bc 29–XI–1977 // C.R. Ward, R. Noya / & H. Serrate a luz” one female (BYUC); “ BOLIVIA, Dpto. La Paz, / Prov. Nor Yungas, / Vagante, 16 o 11’S, / 67 o 41’W, elev. 3650 ft., / 12-XI-2009, S. M. Clark ” two females (BYUC); “ BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz / 3km. N. Buena Vista / 430m, Flora & Fauna / Hotel, 31–X–1999 / C. Porter & L. Strange / Trop. Transition / Forest” one female (AFSC); “ BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, 3.7 km / SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora / & Fauna Hotel, 430m, 5–15–XI–2001 / coll. M.C. Thomas & B. Dozier / tropical transition forest, BLT” two females (AFSC); “ BOLIVIA, Sta. Cruz / 5 km SSE Buena Vista, / Hotel Flora & Fauna / W63 o 39.13’ S17 o 29.92’ // 6–21–II–2007 ” two females (AFSC, from Lois O’Brien); “ BOLIVIA, Cocha. / Villa Tunari, Hotel / El Puente, ~ 400m. / II–14–15–2007 ” two males and one female (AFSC, from Lois O’Brien); “Bolivia, Dpto. Cochabamba / Provincia Chapare / Sajta / 17 o 06’12.83”S / 64 o 43’40.84”W / Altitud 230m / 12 August 1998 ” one female (AFSC, from Gonzalo Navarro); “ Prov. del Sara / Bolivia, 450 m. / J. Steinbach ” // Carn. Mus. / Acc. 6443.” four females (CMNH), one female (AFSC); “ Prov. del Sara / Bol Steinbach” / C. M. Acc. 5064” three females (CMNH); “ Prov. del Sara / Bol Steinbach ” / C. M. Acc. 5064 // Oct 1913 ” three females (CMNH); “ Prov. del Sara / Bol Steinbach ” / C. M. Acc. 5064 // Feb 1913 ” four females (CMNH); “ Prov. del Sara / Bol Steinbach ” / C. M. Acc. 5064 // Nov 1912 ” two females (CMNH); “ Prov. del Sara / Bol Steinbach ” / C. M. Acc. 5064 // Dec 1911 ” two females (CMNH); “ Prov. del Sara / Bolivia, 450 m. / J. Steinbach ” // Nov. 1909 // Carn. Mus. Acc. 4549 ” one female (CMNH); “ Sta. Cruz de / la Sierra, Bol. / 450 m. / J. Steinbach ” // Nov. 1910 // Carn. Mus. / Acc. 4549” three females (CMNH); “ BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, / Ichilo Province, / Buena Vista, 400m, / 3 Oct 1994, R. Ward / mercury vapor light” 10 females (CMNH); “ BOLIVIA: Sta. Cruz, / Ichilo, Buena Vista / 2 Oct 1994, 400m. / R. Ward, m. v. light ” one female (CMNH); “ BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, / Ichilo Province, / Buena Vista, 400m, / 3 Oct 1994, R. Ward / mercury vapor light” one female (AFSC); “ BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz / Potrerillos del Guenda / Res., elev. 1322 ft. / 17º 40.262’S, 63º 27.445’W / 6–12 January 2005 / J. McHugh lab. exped.” three females (UGCA), one female (AFSC); “ BOLIVIA, Santa Cruz / 4–6k SSE Buena Vista / F&F Hotel 2–12 Feb. / 2000 JE Wappes // transition tropical / forest 420–450m” three females (UGCA); “ BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz / 5 km SSE Buena Vista / Hotel Flora & Fauna 440m / W63º39.128’ S17º29.925’ / 10–22–X–2004, J.E. Eger // Coll. at UV, MV and / Incandescent Lights” one female (AFSC); “RURRENABAQUE / Beni-River // Bolivia / 1/ 26–Oct–1956 / LEPena, Col.” two females (AFSC); “ Bolivia / Pampagrande / 11–17–XII–96 G. Tognan” three females (MSNG), one female (AFSC); “ Bolivia Florida / Pampagrande / 12–17–XII–96 G. Tognan” one female (MSNG); “ Bolivia Florida / Pampagrande / 15–XII–96 G. Tognan” one female (MSNG); “ Bolivia / Aguaclara di Pampagrande / 15–XII–96 G. Tognan” one female (MSNG); “ Bolivia / Aguaclara / 15–XII–96 G. Tognan” one female (MSNG); “ Bolivia Florida / C. RE di Mataral / 13–XII–96 G. Tognan” one female (MSNG); “ Bolivia / S. Cruz I–94 / G. Tognan” one female (MSNG); “ BOLIVIA: Saavedra / Dept. Santa Cruz / Agr. Exp. Sta. // R.B. Cumming / 27–XII–59 / blacklight trap ” one female (AFSC); “ BOLIVIA: Saavedra / Dept. Santa Cruz / Agr. Exp. Sta. // R.B. Cumming / 3–I–60 / blacklight trap ” one female (AFSC); “ Bolivia / Santa Cruz / Saavedra / CIMCA / 25–XI–1988 / C.J. Pruet;” one female (AFSC).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records, pp. 1-104 in Zootaxa 4655 (1) on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4655.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3365845