Fidicinoides duckensis Boulard & Martinelli, 1996

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Peru including the description of twenty-four new species, three new synonymies, and thirty-seven new records, Zootaxa 4785 (1), pp. 1-129 : 14

Fidicinoides duckensis Boulard & Martinelli, 1996 new record

Fidicinoides duckensis Boulard & Martinelli 1996: 75 . (Adolfo Ducke Forest Reserve, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil)

REMARKS. The third Peruvian Fidicinoides species with infuscation along the ambient veins of the fore wings and hind wings along with F. descampsi , F. poulaini and F. pseudethelae . The infuscation is found on all crossveins and veins between apical cells in the fore wings in F. duckensis as it is in F. descampsi , F. poulaini and F. pseudethelae . It can be distinguished from F. brunnea by the more robust body, and the infuscation is continuous through the fore wing crossveins and proximal marginal veins. It can be distinguished from F. descampsi by the male timbal cover not reaching the metascutellar plate, the pointed medial opercular margin, the larger apical spine in the fore femur, and the uncal crest and lateral uncus lobes being about the same length and thickness. It can be distinguished from F. poulaini by the lobate posterolateral opercular margin, and the lateral uncal lobes are longer and broader than the uncal crest. It can be distinguished from F. pseudethelae by the lack of a piceous marking in the pronotal ambient fissure, the male timbal cover bending mediad at the apex, the rounded posterolateral opercular margin, the primary spine on the fore femur is almost touching the femur, and the uncal crest is shorter and more narrow than the lateral uncus lobes.

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported previously from Brazil and Venezuela ( Sanborn 2013).

MATERIAL EXAMINED FOR NEW RECORD. “ PERU / Tingo / Maria // 18-viii-60 / M. Rojas ” 15 males ( NCSU), five males ( AFSC); “ PERU / Tingo / Maria / X.1956 / J.R. Dogger ” one male ( AFSC); “ Tingo Maria, / Peru / Aug. 21, 1962 // R.E. Fontaine / Collector” 28 males and six females ( UCDC), one male ( AFSC); “ PERU Madre de Dios / nr. Puerto Maldonado / Explorer’s Inn / 21 Aug. 1985 / J.F. Cornell ” one male ( UDCC).