Proarna bergi
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Heath, Maxine S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Proarna
Proarna bergi

description: Proarna bergi (Distant, 1892)
Tympanoterpes bergi Distant 1892: 61 (type material examined).
Type locality. Argentina.
Remarks. The species was reported from Colombia and Argentina (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2010a) but the reference to Colombia was an error made by Metcalf (1963a) in reading the source of specimens in Distant’s (1892) original paper (Sanborn 2010a). The distribution described for this species in the literature has been confused due to lack of clarity about the identity of P. bergi and P. bufo (Torres 1961a). Currently P. bergi is known only from Argentina with the provinces of Santa Fe and Tucumán specifically named (Costilla 1969; Costilla et al. 1971; Bolcatto et al. 2006; De Santis et al. 2007). We collected specimens in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Entre Rios, La Rioja, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán Provinces and a western variety in Catamarca, Jujuy, Salta, and San Luis Provinces. The species is distributed more northernly and westerly than P. bufo. The species is associated with the Chaco, Espinal, Monte, and Pampas floristic province (Sanborn et al. 2011a).
New provincial records. Prov. Buenos Aires, 8 km North of Ezeiza Airpport on Autopista Ricchieri, 5-I-1992, A. Sanborn & P. Ganter coll. (one male, AFSC); Catamarca, 1 km So. of Amadores, 4-I-1988, M.S. & J.S. Heath Coll. (one male, MSHC); Catamarca, 1 km So. of Amadores, 4-I-1988, Al Sanborn Coll. (one male, MSHC); Catamarca, 1 km So. of Amadores, 4-I-1988, F. Noriega coll. (one male, MSHC); Prov. Catamarca, Colonia Nueva Coneta, 9-I-1992, A. Sanborn & P. Ganter coll. (11 males, one female, AFSC); Prov. Catamarca, Andalgala, 5–29- X-1973, A. & K. Hulse coll. (two males, one female, AFSC); Prov. Catamarca, Andalgala, 1–13-I-1974, A. & K. Hulse coll. (one female, AFSC); Cordoba, 36 km E. of Vicuña Mackenna, 22-I-1988, Heath, Sanborn, Noriega Coll. (one male, MSHC); Entre Rios, Ruta 12— 8 km No. of Rio Parana Guazu, 3-I-1988, Al Sanborn Coll. (two males, MSHC); Jujuy, 9 km No. of Grl. San Martin, 10-I-1988, Heath, Sanborn, Noriega Coll. (one male, MSHC); La Rioja, Dto. San Blas de los Sauces, Salicas, 19-I-1988, Heath, Sanborn, Noriega Coll. (three males, MSHC); Salta, Yatasto, 17-I-1988, Heath, Sanborn, Noriega Coll. ex. grass (two males, MSHC); Salta, Rosario de la Frontera, 17-I-1988, Heath, Sanborn, Noriega Coll. ex. grass (four males, MSHC); Salta, 4 km So. of Rosario de la Frontera, 31-XII-1986, J.E. & M.S. Heath Coll. (one male, MSHC); Salta, 4 km So. of Rosario de la Frontera, 31- XII-1986, F. Noriega coll. (one male, MSHC); Salta, Ruta 68 & Rio Pulares, 1 km No. of El Carril, 16-I-1988, Heath, Sanborn, Noriega Coll. (two males, MSHC); Salta, 1 km E. of Macapillo, 9-I-1988, Heath, Sanborn, Noriega Coll. (one male, MSHC); Salta, 3.5 km So. of Grl. Enrique Mosconi, 10-I-1988, Heath, Sanborn, Noriega Coll. (one male, MSHC); Salta, 4 km No. of Pichinal, 11-I-1988, Heath, Sanborn, Noriega Coll. (one male, MSHC); Salta, 3.5 km So. of Grl. Enrique Mosconi, 12-I-1988, Heath, Sanborn, Noriega Coll. (one female, MSHC); Salta, General Guemes, 9-I-1988, Heath, Sanborn, Noriega Coll. (one female, MSHC); San Luis, ca. Eleodora Lobas, 28-I-1988, J.E. & M.S. Heath, Al Sanborn, & F. Noriega Coll. (one male, MSHC); Prov. San Luis, Ruta 7, 3 km East of Mercedes, 6-I-1992, A. Sanborn & P. Ganter coll. (13 males, one female, AFSC); Santiago del Estero, Colonia Dora, 30-XII-1986, J.E. Heath Coll. (one male, MSHC); Santiago del Estero, Colonia Dora, 30- XII-1986, J.E. & M.S. Heath Coll. (one male, MSHC); Santiago del Estero, Colonia Dora, 30-XII-1986, M.S. Heath Coll. (one female, MSHC); Santiago del Estero, Colonia Dora, 30-XII-1986, F, Noriega coll. (two males, MSHC); Santiago del Estero, Colonia Dora, 30-XII-1986, Al Sanborn Coll. (one male, MSHC); Prov. Santiago del Estero, Fernandez, Ruta No. 34, 8-XII-2004, F. Penco leg. (one male, five females, AFSC).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on pages 54-55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951252