Fidicinoides kirkaldyi ( Metcalf, 1963 ), 2016

Sanborn, Allen F., 2016, Five new species, a new genus and a new record of cicadas from French Guiana with four new combinations and three new synonymies (Insecta, Hemiptera, Cicadoidea, Cicadidae), Zoosystema 38 (2), pp. 177-199 : 178

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5252/z2016n2a2
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scientific name	Fidicinoides kirkaldyi ( Metcalf, 1963 )
status	comb. nov.

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Fidicinoides kirkaldyi ( Metcalf, 1963) View in CoL n. comb.

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Cicada kirkaldyi Metcalf, 1963b: 776 View in CoL (nom. nov. pro Cicada brasiliensis Kirkaldy, 1909 View in CoL nec Cicada brasiliensis Gmelin, 1789 View in CoL ).

Cicada obtusa Uhler, 1903: 11 View in CoL , n. syn.

Cicada brasiliensis Kirkaldy, 1909: 391 View in CoL (nom. nov. pro [ Cicada] obtusa Uhler, 1903 View in CoL nec Cicada obtusa Fabricius, 1787 View in CoL ), n. syn.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Mato Grosso, Brazil.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — “ Chapada // Braz. / Sept. // Cicada / obtusa / Uhler, / Type.” ♂ ( CMNH); “ Chapada // Braz. / Sept. // Cicada / obtusa / Uhler, / Type.” ♂ ( USNM).

DISTRIBUTION. — Specimens have been reported previously from Brazil ( Uhler 1903).

REMARKS

While examining species in an attempt to identify the new species described here, I determined that Cicada obtusa Uhler, 1903 should actually be assigned to the genus Fidicinoides . I have studied syntype specimens of Cicada obtusa in the CMNH and USNM. The species has not been discussed in the literature other than the original description ( Uhler 1903), being catalogued by Henshaw (1903), Distant (1906a, 1912) or Sanborn (2013), and the renaming of the species by Kirkaldy (1909) and Metcalf (1963b) due to the previously given name being preoccupied. The lateral metascutellar plate is rudimentary, the dorsal timbal cover is open to the timbal cavity so the timbal is visible dorsolaterally, and the eyes do not extend beyond the lateral margins of the pronotum in the syntype of C. obtusa meeting the characteristics of the genus Fidicinoides ( Boulard & Martinelli 1996) . Thus, Cicada obtusa is determined here to be a member of the genus Fidicinoides and its synonyms, Cicada obtusa Uhler, 1903 , Cicada brasiliensis Kirkaldy, 1909 and Cicada kirkaldyi ( Metcalf, 1963) , are hereby transferred to the genus Fidicinoides to become Fidicinoides kirkaldyi ( Metcalf, 1963) n. comb.

References

BOULARD M. & MARTINELLI N. M. 1996. - Revision des Fidicini, nouveau statut de la tribu, especes connues et nouvelles especes (Cicadomorpha, Cicadidae, Cicadinae). Premiere partie: Sous-tribu nouvelle des Fidicinina. Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, Travaux du laboratoire Biologie et evolution des insectes Hemipteroidea 9: 11 - 81.

DISTANT W. L. 1906 a. - A Synonymic Catalogue of Homoptera. Part I. Cicadidae. Trustees of the British Museum, London. 207 p.

DISTANT W. L. 1912. - Homoptera Fam. Cicadidae, Subfam. Cicadinae. Genera Insectorum 142: 1 - 64.

FABRICIUS J. C. 1787. - Mantissa insectorum sistens species nuper detectas adiectis synonymis, observationibus, descriptionibus, emendationibus. Tom. II. Impensis Christ. Gottl. Proft, Hafniae, 382 p.

GMELIN J. F. 1789. - Caroli a Linne, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tom. 1, Pars IV. Impensis Georg. Emanuel. Beer, Lipsiae: 1517 - 2224.

HENSHAW S. B. 1903. - The Hemiptera described by Philip Reese Uhler. IV. Psyche 10: 224 - 238.

KIRKALDY G. W. 1909. - Hemiptera, old and new, No. 2. Canadian Entomologist 41: 388 - 392.

METCALF Z. P. 1963 b. - General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 1. Cicadidae. Section II. Gaeninae and Cicadinae. North Carolina State College Contribution 1502: 587 - 919.

METCALF Z. P. 1963 a. - General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 1. Cicadidae. Section I. Tibiceninae. North Carolina State College Contribution 1502: i-vii, 1 - 585.

SANBORN A. F. 2013. - Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea). With Contributions to the Bibliography by Martin H. Villet. Elsevier / Academic Press, San Diego, 1001 p.

UHLER P. R. 1903. - Enumeration of the Cicadidae of Brazil in the collection of Mr. Herbert H. Smith. Transactions of the Maryland Academy of Sciences 2: 1 - 17.

Figures

FIG. 1. — Fidicinoides kirkaldyi (Metcalf, 1963b) n. comb. Syntype ♂ (CMNH). Scale bar: 2 cm.

Abbreviations

CMNH	USA, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
USNM	USA, Washington D.C., National Museum of Natural History, [formerly, United States National Museum]
CMNH	The Cleveland Museum of Natural History
USNM	Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
SuperFamily	Cicadoidea
Family	Cicadidae
SubFamily	Cicadinae
Tribe	Fidicinini
SubTribe	Fidicinina
Genus	Fidicinoides