Fidicina vitellina Jacobi, 1904

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 : 19

Fidicina vitellina Jacobi, 1904

C[icada] vitellina (nom. nud.) Burmeister 1835: 182.

Cicada vitellina (nom. nud.) Walker 1850: 229.

Fidicina vitellina Jacobi 1904: 155 . ( Brazil and Paraguay)

REMARKS.—This is the smallest of the known Ecuadorian species of Fidicina with body lengths of 25–26 mm and wingspans of 69–75 mm ( Jacobi 1904). It is a greenish ochraceous species with piceous anterior abdominal segments, with a yellow fore wing clavus and the basal third of the hind wings. The infuscation is restricted to the basal radius anterior 2, basal radius posterior, radial crossvein and radiomedial crossvein (illustrated in Jacobi 1904).

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported from Brazil, Ecuador, and Paraguay ( Metcalf 1963a). Goding (1925) reported the species from Balao, Bucay, and Guayaquil in Guayas province.