Quesada gigas (Olivier, 1790)

Cicada gigas Olivier 1790: 750 (Java).

Cicada triupsilon Walker 1850: 103 (Unknown collection locality).

Cicada sonans Walker 1850: 104 (Unknown collection locality).

Cicada consonans Walker 1850: 106 (West Coast of America).

Cicada vibrans Walker 1850: 107 (Unknown collection locality).

Tympanoterpes sibilarix Berg 1879: 141 (Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia).

Distribution. As described above, Quesada gigas has been reported from extends from as far south as central Argentina throughout South and Central America to the southern United States (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011 a, 2013, 2014, 2018b, 2019 a, 2020a, c, d, e; Sanborn & Heath 2014; Nunes et al. 2023). Canada (Sanborn & Heath 2017), Suriname (Sanborn 2020d), and Chile (Sanborn 2021b) are the only countries in the New World without a record of the species.