Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the description of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records, Zootaxa 4880 (1), pp. 1-80 : 17-18

Genus Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 472 .

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

REMARKS.—The long and wide lateral metascutellar plates that almost reach the timbal covers and the presence of timbal covers almost close the timbal cavities distinguish species of Fidicina from species of Fidicinoides ( Boulard & Martinelli 1996) . The majority of historically assigned species of the genus have been reassigned to Fidicinoides and a number of other genera (Sanborn 2013).

DISTRIBUTION.—The genus is represented over much of the Neotropics with species being recorded from the Antilles, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a, b; 2013; 2014a; 2018c; 2019b; 2020b; Sanborn & Heath 2014).