Description

Description. Ground color testaceous marked with castaneous and piceous, costal margin, radius & subcostal vein and basal veins of fore wing ochraceous due to ethanol exposure, vibrant green in live specimens. Pronotum, mesonotum and metanotum with greenish tinge in one paratype and in live specimens. Body covered with silvery pile. Head. Head slightly wider than mesonotum, dorsal head piceous except ground color supra-antennal plate anterior margin, reduced to lateral half or extending along medial margin in some paratypes, anteromedial corner of vertex and medioposterior head with mark extending lateral to posterior cranial depressions, mark extending anteriorly into posterior epicranial suture, mark extends anteriorly to surround piceous posterior cranial depression forming a spot on either side of ground color mark in some paratypes, short silvery pile on dorsal head, denser long silvery pile posterior to eye. Ocelli rosaceous, eyes dark castaneous with lighter margin. Gena piceous except ground color medial and anterior margins, lorum piceous with ground color anteromedial and posteromedial margins, short silvery pile and radiating long silvery pile on lorum and gena. Postclypeus ground color with piceous transverse grooves and central sulcus, piceous expanding along posterior margin in some paratypes, 12 transverse grooves, dorsum piceous, long silvery pile radiating from postclypeus, short silvery pile along lateral margin. Anteclypeus piceous with ground color carina, anterior and medial posterior margins, transverse piceous band across anterior carina, expanded with additional mark across posterior carina in some paratypes, covered with short white pile and radiating long silvery pile. Mentum castaneous, labium castaneous at base becoming piceous, rostrum radiating long silvery pile, reaching to posterior of middle trochanters. Scape ground color, remaining antennal segments piceous.

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Hemiptera

Family: Cicadidae

Genus: Chilecicada

Species: Chilecicada viridicitata Sanborn & Cole, 2021