Quesada gigas (Olivier, 1790)

Cicada gigas Olivier 1790: 750 .

Cicada triupsilon, Walker 1850: 103 .

Cicada sonans, Walker 1850: 104 .

Cicada consonans, Walker 1850: 106 .

Cicada vibrans, Walker 1850: 107 .

Cicada triypsilon [sic], Dohrn 1859: 73.

Cicada grossa [nec Fabricius], Stål 1861: 614.

Tympanoterpes sibilatrix Berg 1879: 141 .

Cicada trupsilon [sic], Uhler 1905: 75.

Tympanoterpes sibilantis [sic], Kobayashi 1939a: 12.

Tympanoterpis sibilantes [sic], Kobayashi 1939b: 191.

Q[uesada] gicas [sic], Martinelli and Zucchi 1987: 51.

Tympanotherpes [sic] (=Quesada) gigas, Salazar Escobar 2005: 193.

This species has one of the most extensive north to south distributions of any cicada species. It has been reported from central Argentina to the southern United States (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels and van der Laan 1985; Sanborn et al. 1995b; Sanborn 2001, 2006b, 2007a,b; Sueur 2002; Boulard 2005; Salazar Escobar 2005; De Santis et al. 2007). The species has been reported from Manaure (Distant 1881a; Jacobi 1907), Cauca, Tomlima, Caldas, Cundinamarca, Antioquia and Santander (Figueroa Potes 1952), Caldas, Río Cauca and Tolima, Mariquita-El Bosque (Salazar Escobar 2005) in Colombia.