Proarna Stal 1864

Proarna Stål, 1864 Type species. Cicada hilaris Germar, 1830 (“ Australia?” was given as the type locality but it is a New World genus). Remarks. The genus is widespread through the neotropics with species recorded from the Antilles, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Peru, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, and West Indies (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2006a; 2007a; 2007b; 2008a; 2010a; 2011a; 2011b; 2013).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 page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/495125