Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Suriname including the description of two new species, five new combinations, and three new records, Zootaxa 4881 (3), pp. 453-481 : 460

Genus Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 472 .

Type species. Tettigonia mannifera Fabricius 1803: 36 . ( South America )

Remarks. Long and wide lateral metascutellar plates almost reaching the timbal covers and timbal covers almost closing the timbal cavities distinguish species of Fidicina from species of Fidicinoides Boulard & Martinelli, 1996 (which should eventually be found in Suriname) ( Boulard & Martinelli 1996). The majority of species historically classified in the genus have been reassigned to Fidicinoides and other genera within the Guyalnina (Sanborn 2013) . Both species known from Suriname are large (wingspan greater than 100 mm) with infuscation on the wing veins.

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, Suriname, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a, b; 2013; 2014a; 2018b; 2019b; 2020c, d; Sanborn & Heath 2014).