The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-08-12
4655
1
1
104
journal article
26048
10.11646/zootaxa.4655.1.1
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Genus
Fidicinoides
Boulard & Martinelli, 1996
Fidicinoides
Boulard & Martinelli 1996: 44
.
TYPE
SPECIES.
Fidicina picea
Walker 1850: 81
. (
Mexico
)
REMARKS.
Boulard & Martinelli (1996)
established the genus
Fidicinoides
for species characterized by short and narrow lateral metascutellar plates that do not reach the timbal covers and timbal covers that do not completely close the timbal cavities. Species of
Fidicinoides
also presents a head noticeably wider than the mesonotum but is not very prominent and possess a wide and flattened cruciform elevation (
Santos
et al.
2010
). The genus
Fidicinoides
exhibits greater species diversity than
Fidicina
and extends farther north than does
Fidicina
(Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2014a; 2016b;
Sanborn & Maes 2012
;
Maes
et al.
2012
;
Sanborn & Heath 2014
).
DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported from
Argentina
,
Bolivia
,
Brazil
,
Colombia
,
Costa Rica
,
Ecuador
,
El Salvador
,
French Guiana
,
Guatemala
,
Guyana
,
Honduras
,
Mexico
,
Nicaragua
,
Panama
,
Peru
,
Trinidad & Tobago
, and
Venezuela
(
Metcalf 1963a
; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2014a; 2016b; 2018c;
Sanborn & Maes 2012
;
Maes
et al.
2012
;
Sanborn & Heath 2014
).