The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the description of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
0000-0001-5729-7106
Department of Biology, Barry University, 11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami Shores, FL 33161 – 6695, USA
asanborn@barry.edu
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-11-17
4880
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4880.1.1
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Fidicina muelleri
Distant, 1892b
Fidicina mülleri
Distant 1892b: 319
. (
Santa Catarina
,
Brazil
)
Fidicina mulleri
(sic)
Goding 1925: 5
.
REMARKS.—The infuscation of all fore wing crossveins connecting to infuscation on the basal apical cell veins except for the radius anterior 2 and radius posterior quickly distinguishes this species from the other Ecuadorian species of
Fidicina
. It is a dark olivaceous species with piceous markings on the anterior mesothorax and a piceous abdomen, sometimes with castaneous dorsally on the anterior segments. Body length is about
31 mm
and wingspan is about
90 mm
(
Distant 1892b
).
DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported from
Brazil
,
Ecuador
, and
French Guiana
(
Metcalf 1963a
;
Duffels & van der Laan 1985
; Sanborn 2011a).
Goding (1925)
reported the species from Posorja, Guayas province and Macas, Morona Santiago province.