Together with collaborators, Piotr has just published a monograph in Zootaxa about thirteen new species of Chilean Cicadas. Congratulation!

The genus Chilecicada Sanborn, 2014 is shown to be a complex of closely related species rather than a monospecific genus. Based on the conducted analysis of song and COI (cytochrome oxidase I) the authors extracted 13 new species from the abovementioned genus. The information on their distribution and a key to the species of the genus is provided in the article.

The new species increases the known cicada diversity by 61.9% to 34 species, 91.2% of which are endemic to Chile.

 

Allen F. Sandborn, Joffrey A. Cole, Mark Stukel, Piotr Łukasik, Claudio Veloso, Valorie A. Gonzales, Jessica B. Karkar, Chris Simon. 2021. Thirteen new species of Chilecicada Sanborn, 2014 (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae: Tibicininae) expand the highly endemic cicada fauna of Chile. Zootaxa. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5078.1.1

 

December, 9th 2021