Morphological characterisation of five brazilian species of Fidicinoides (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) Author Santos, Rodrigo S. Ph. D. Embrapa Acre - Centro de Pesquisa Agroflorestal do Acre (CPAFAC) - Rod. BR- 364, Km 14, CP 321, 69908 - 970, Rio Branco, AC, Brazil. rodrigo@ cpafac.embrapa.br Author Martinelli, Nilza M. Ph. D. Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Via de Acesso Prof. Paulo Donato Castellane s / n, 14884 - 900, Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil. nilza@fcav.unesp.br text Revista Colombiana de Entomología 2011 2011-12-31 37 2 341 345 http://dx.doi.org/10.25100/socolen.v37i2.9098 journal article 269419 10.25100/socolen.v37i2.9098 704ecae8-fb6a-4584-a77b-340775037f43 8380536 Fidicinoides pseudethelae Boulard and Martinelli, 1996 Head ( Fig. 4A ): lateral ocelli and the medial ocellus situated on an irregular-shaped, broad black mark which stops short of the base of the antennae and vertex; median ocellus in frontal position; distance between the lateral ocelli nearly three times the distance that separates them from the corresponding eyes; eyes in short ellipsoids, wide, oblique, with subocular joined marks; postclypeus dorsal portion short and arched; postclypeus face arched, brown, with nine transverse ridges on both sides of the medial furrow; anteclypeus black; rostrum brownish, long, with apex reaching the level of the insertion of the hind trochanters. Thorax ( Fig. 4A ): pronotum longer than the head; lateral angle of pronotal collar poorly developed; mesonotum brown, with black markings; lateral sigilla triangular, dark near the pronotum and apices, lighter in the central area; submedian sigilla short, dark and curved; two joined or separated, irregular-shaped markings, scutal depression with almost circular black marks; cruciform elevation flattened, with posterior apices short, pointed and close together ( Fig. 4A ); operculum with short lamina, with wide, slightly arched, ochre and brown lamina. Abdomen ( Fig. 4B ): Shorter than the distance from the vertex to the back apices of the cruciform elevation; broad base, tapering in the direction of the last abdominal section; blackened tergites; black timbal cover, arched and with black markings; brownish sternites with green markings; male sternite VIII nearly twice as wide as long, with the anterior margin almost straight, lateral margin oblique, with a concavity approximately midway, posterior margin concave and rounded, with apices apart from one another ( Fig. 4D ). Figure 5. Fidicinoides sucinalae : A. Head and thorax (dorsal view); B. Abdomen (ventral view); C. Right forewing; D. ♂ sternite VIII (f.m. – front margin; l.m. – lateral margin and p.m. – posterior margin). Forewing ( Fig. 4C ): hyaline; dark brown fumose on the apical area; forewing wide, with basal cell opaque, black; costa long and brownish, becoming brown at the apical area; the extremities of the veins with dark brown fumose markings on both sides; radial, radiomedial, medial and mediocubital crossveins with strong dark brown infuscation, the ambient vein also being the same colour; apical area octoloculate. Examined material: FRENCH GUIANA . MNHN / Paris. 25.IV.1992 . ( M. Thouvenot ), 1 paratype ♂ ; ibidem, 16.XII.1992 . 1 paratype ♀ ; BRAZIL . Pará : Cachimbo . FIOC . 21.IX.1955 , 18.I.1956 . ( L. Travassos and S. Oliveira ), 4 ♂♂ ; ibidem, 09.X.1956 . ( Travassos , Oliveira and Adão ), 35 ♂♂ ; ibidem, Amazonas : Humaitá . FCA / UNESP / Botucatu . X.1974 . ( Scivittaro ), 4 ♂♂ ; ibidem, Rio Juavá . INPA . 02.VIII.1980 . ( Francisco, B. ), 1 ♂ ; Rondônia : Porto Velho . INPA . 26.I.1980 . ( P. Arias and J. Arias ), 1 ♂ . Comments: Large-sized species, similar to Fidicinoides dolosa Santos and Martinelli 2009 but distinguished by the submedian sigilla being comma-shaped internal marks on the mesonotum.