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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1175-5326
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Fidicinoides picea
(
Walker, 1850
)
Fidicina picea
Walker 1850: 81
(
Mexico
)
.
REMARKS.—This is one of the larger species of
Fidicinoides
(body length greater than
36 mm
, wingspan about
110 mm
) in
Ecuador
with a lack of infuscation in the wings. It is most similar to but larger than both
F. pronoe
and
F. ptychodiropeda
. It can be distinguished from
F. pronoe
further by the more robust body, wide pronotal collar, the male operculum extending to sternite II, the curved proximal margin of the uncal dorsal crest, and the short, triangular lateral branch of the uncus.
Fidicinoides picea
can be distinguished from by the posterior margin of the timbal cavity that is smoothly curved on the posterolateral margin but forms a right angle in
F. ptychodiropeda
, the wide lateral pronotal collar that lacks the folding characteristic of
F. ptychodiropeda
, and the uncus lacks the very large, broad, flat medial extension of the lateral branch of the uncus found in
F. ptychodiropeda
. The lack of infuscation in the wings distinguishes from the remaining species of
Fidicinoides
in
Ecuador
.
DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported from
Brazil
,
Colombia
,
Ecuador
,
Guyana
,
Mexico
,
Panama
, and
Venezuela
(
Metcalf 1963a
; Sanborn 2013; 2018c). The known distribution suggests there are several countries in which the species is awaiting discovery.