Genus Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 472 .

TYPE SPECIES. Tettigonia mannifera Fabricius 1803: 36 . ( South America)

Remarks. Species of Fidicina present long and wide lateral metascutellar plates that almost reach the timbal coverings and whose timbal covers almost close the timbal cavities to distinguish them from species of Fidicinoides (Boulard & Martinelli 1996) . The majority of historic species of the genus have been reassigned to Fidicinoides and other genera (Sanborn 2013).

Distribution. Species of the genus have been recorded from the Antilles, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, and Venezuela (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a; 2011b; 2013; 2014; Sanborn & Heath 2014).