Fidicinoides pseudethelae Boulard and Martinelli, 1996

Santos, Rodrigo S. & Martinelli, Nilza M., 2011, Morphological characterisation of five brazilian species of Fidicinoides (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), Revista Colombiana de Entomología 37 (2), pp. 341-345 : 344

Fidicinoides pseudethelae Boulard and Martinelli, 1996

Head ( Fig. 4A ): lateral ocelli and the medial ocellus situated on an irregular-shaped, broad black mark which stops short of the base of the antennae and vertex; median ocellus in frontal position; distance between the lateral ocelli nearly three times the distance that separates them from the corresponding eyes; eyes in short ellipsoids, wide, oblique, with subocular joined marks; postclypeus dorsal portion short and arched; postclypeus face arched, brown, with nine transverse ridges on both sides of the medial furrow; anteclypeus black; rostrum brownish, long, with apex reaching the level of the insertion of the hind trochanters.

Thorax ( Fig. 4A ): pronotum longer than the head; lateral angle of pronotal collar poorly developed; mesonotum brown, with black markings; lateral sigilla triangular, dark near the pronotum and apices, lighter in the central area; submedian sigilla short, dark and curved; two joined or separated, irregular-shaped markings, scutal depression with almost circular black marks; cruciform elevation flattened, with posterior apices short, pointed and close together ( Fig. 4A ); operculum with short lamina, with wide, slightly arched, ochre and brown lamina.

Abdomen ( Fig. 4B ): Shorter than the distance from the vertex to the back apices of the cruciform elevation; broad base, tapering in the direction of the last abdominal section; blackened tergites; black timbal cover, arched and with black markings; brownish sternites with green markings; male sternite VIII nearly twice as wide as long, with the anterior margin almost straight, lateral margin oblique, with a concavity approximately midway, posterior margin concave and rounded, with apices apart from one another ( Fig. 4D ).

Forewing ( Fig. 4C ): hyaline; dark brown fumose on the apical area; forewing wide, with basal cell opaque, black; costa long and brownish, becoming brown at the apical area; the extremities of the veins with dark brown fumose markings on both sides; radial, radiomedial, medial and mediocubital crossveins with strong dark brown infuscation, the ambient vein also being the same colour; apical area octoloculate.

Examined material: FRENCH GUIANA. MNHN / Paris. 25.IV.1992. (M. Thouvenot), 1 paratype ♂; ibidem, 16.XII.1992. 1 paratype ♀; BRAZIL. Pará: Cachimbo . FIOC. 21.IX.1955, 18.I.1956. (L. Travassos and S. Oliveira), 4 ♂♂; ibidem, 09.X.1956. (Travassos, Oliveira and Adão), 35 ♂♂; ibidem, Amazonas: Humaitá. FCA / UNESP / Botucatu . X.1974. (Scivittaro), 4 ♂♂; ibidem, Rio Juavá . INPA. 02.VIII.1980. (Francisco, B.), 1 ♂; Rondônia: Porto Velho. INPA. 26.I.1980. (P. Arias and J. Arias), 1 ♂.

Comments: Large-sized species, similar to Fidicinoides dolosa Santos and Martinelli 2009 but distinguished by the submedian sigilla being comma-shaped internal marks on the mesonotum.

Figures

Figure 4. Fidicinoides pseudethelae: A. Head and thorax (dorsal view); B. Abdomen (ventral view); C. Right forewing; D. ♂ sternite VIII (f.m. – front margin; l.m. – lateral margin and p.m. – posterior margin).