The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-10-04
4493
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1
69
journal article
29291
10.11646/zootaxa.4493.1.1
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Tribe
Fidicinini
Distant, 1905d
Fidicinaria
Distant 1905d: 310
.
Hyantiaria
Distant 1905c: 478
.
TYPE GENUS.
Fidicina
Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 472
.
Remarks.
Marshal
et al.
(2018) synonymized the
Hyantiini
into the
Fidicinini
along with the addition of several genera previously classified in a number of different tribes, including
Diceroprocta
Stål, 1870
(formerly in the
Cryptotympanini
Handlirsch, 1 925) of the Panamanian
cicada
fauna. Species of the tribe extend across the majority of the New World being absent only at the higher latitudes (
Metcalf 1963
s;
Duffels & van der Laan 1985
;
Sanborn 2013
;
Sanborn & Heath 2012
;
2014
). The
Fidicinini
can be distinguished by the timbal covers which extend anteriorly exposing part of the timbal dorsally, the well developed and usually angulate opercula, the trapezoidal pronotum sometimes with the posterior angles lobately produced, and the distinctly elevated metasternum in the genera of the
Fidicinini
(
Distant 1905d
;
Boulard & Martinelli 1996
). Species of the tribe are unique in their possession of large protruberances on the hind coxae, timbal covers that are reduced dorsally, a basal pygofer lobe that is never bifurcate, an uncus with a dorsal crest and ventral apophyses to restrain the aedeagus, and the lack of medially angulate lateral pronotal margins (
Marshall
et al.
2018
).