Guyalna bicolor

Guyalna bicolor
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
Binomial name
Guyalna bicolor (Olivier, 1790)
Synonyms [1]
Cicada bicolor Olivier, 1790 Cicada passerculus Walker, 1850 Cicada spinicostaWalker, 1850 Cicada lacrinesWalker, 1850 Fidicina bicolor Stål, 1866 Fidicina cayennensis Kirkaldy, 1909 Dorisiana bicolor Boulard  [ fr ], 1996

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

1. 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

1. 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
2. Olivier, Guillaume-Antoine (1790). Encyclopédie méthodique: Histoire naturelle.
3. 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.