Fidicinoides 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 : 12

Genus Fidicinoides Boulard & Martinelli, 1996

Fidicinoides Boulard & Martinelli 1996: 44 .

Type species. Fidicina picea Walker 1850: 81 . (Mexico)

REMARKS. The genus was established for species possessing short and narrow lateral metascutellar plates that do not reach the timbal cover and timbal covers that do not completely close the timbal cavities ( Boulard & Martinelli (1996). A head that is not very prominent but noticeably wider than the mesonotum and a wide and flattened cruciform elevation are also characteristic of Fidicinoides ( Santos et al. 2010) . Fidicinoides now exhibits greater species diversity and extends farther north than do the species of Fidicina ( Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2014a; 2016b; 2019b; Sanborn & Maes 2012; Maes et al. 2012; Sanborn & Heath 2014). Most of the undetermined species of Fidicina reported by Pogue (1996) are probably species of Fidicinoides since there is greater diversity of Fidicinoides species in Peru.

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Trinidad & Tobago, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2014a; 2016b; 2018b; 2019b; Sanborn & Maes 2012; Maes et al. 2012; Sanborn & Heath 2014).