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 duckensis Boulard and Martinelli, 1996 Head ( Fig. 3A ): lateral ocelli and medial ocellus situated on an irregular-shaped broad black mark which extends to the vertex, not extending to the base of the antennae; median ocellus in a frontal position; distance between the lateral ocelli nearly twice the distance that separates them from the corresponding eyes; eyes salient and oblique, with discrete sub-ocular marks; long postclypeus dorsal portion, brownish and slightly arched; postclypeus face distinctly arched, ochre, with nine transverse ridges with black and light brown markings on both sides of the black medial furrow; black anteclypeus; rostrum ochre, long, with apex reaching the insertion of the hind femur. Thorax ( Fig. 3A ): pronotum longer than head; lateral angle of pronotal collar poorly developed; mesonotum ochre, with soot black markings; lateral sigilla light coloured triangular-shaped outer markings, the base being two brownish irregular-shaped marks near the pronotum, central area colourless and two small marks at the apices; submedian sigilla triangular, broad, short and black, an irregular-shaped mark and two black punctiform marks above the cruciform elevation; cruciform elevation not very long, with posterior apices pointed and close together ( Fig. 3A ); operculum with short lamina, broad, arched, ochre-coloured lamina, with dark brown markings on the outer side. Abdomen ( Fig. 3B ): a little shorter than the distance covered from the vertex to the back apices of the cruciform elevation; base wide, tapering in the direction of the last abdominal segment; brown and black tergites covered with golden hairs; timbal cover arched, dark brown; sternites brown, sparsely covered with golden and black hairs; male sternite VIII nearly twice as long as wide, with the front and side margins slightly concave and the back one having a half moon-shaped invagination, and the apices close together ( Fig. 3D ). Forewing ( Fig. 3C ): hyaline; light brown fumose on the apical area; forewing with basal cell partially opaque and ochre coloured, costa long and of the same colour; veins ochre turning brown in the apical area, the extremities of the veins with fumose brown markings on both sides; infuscation on the radial and radiomedial crossveins and the ambient vein, slightly marked brown; apical area octoloculate. Examined material: BRAZIL . Amazonas : Ducke Reserve . INPA . 13.VIII.1979 . ( H. M. Savage ), Holotype ♂ ; ibidem, INPA . 11.II.1976 . ( B. C. Ratcliffe ), 1 paratype ♀ ; ibidem, Humaitá . FCA / UNESP / Botucatu . X.1974 . ( Scivittaro ), 1 paratype ♂ ; ibidem, Manaus . INPA . 04.VIII.1978 . ( Rodolfo ), 1 paratype ♂ ; ibidem, 24.III.1982 . ( Latorre L. R. ), 1 alotype ♀ ; ibidem, MN/RJ . 27.IX.1955 . ( Elias and Roppa ), 1 ♂ ; ibidem, Humaitá . INPA . FCA/UNESP / Botucatu . X.1974 . ( Scivittaro ), 1 ♂ ; Rondônia : Porto Velho . INPA . 20.VIII. 1979 , 01.IX.1979 . ( J. Campbell ), 2 ♂♂ ; ibidem, 11.IX.1963 . ( Eduardo ), 1 ♂ ; Mato Grosso : Humbolt Reserve . INPA . 26.IX.1975 . ( L. P. Albuquerque ), 1 ♂ ; Pará : Cachimbo . FIOCRUZ . 09.X.1956 . ( Travassos, Oliveira and Adão ), 1 ♂ ; ibidem, Rio Trombetas . INPA . 14.IV.1985 . ( J. E. Binda ), 1 ♂ . Comments: Medium-sized species, similar to Fidicinoides poulaini Boulard and Martinelli 1996 , but distinguished by male sternite VIII having the anterior and lateral margins slightly concave.