Fidicinini Distant, 1905d

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Trinidad and Tobago including the description of three new species and seven new records, with new records for several additional Caribbean Islands, Zootaxa 4838 (4), pp. 535-565 : 537

Tribe Fidicinini Distant, 1905d

Fidicinaria Distant 1905d: 310 .

Hyantiaria Distant 1905c: 478 .

Type genus. Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 472 .

Remarks. The diversity of the Fidicinini increased recently with the synonymy of the Hyantiini and the addition of several genera previously classified in a number of different tribes (Marshal et al. 2018). Species of the tribe range across the majority of the New World being absent only at the higher latitudes ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2013; Sanborn & Heath 2012; 2014; 2017; Sanborn & Phillips 2013).

Diagnosis. Timbal covers extend anteriorly with part of dorsal timbal exposed, well developed and usually angulate opercula, trapezoidal pronotum sometimes possessing lobately produced posterior angles, and distinctly elevated metasternum ( Distant 1905d; Boulard & Martinelli 1996; Marshall et al. 2018). Large hind coxae protuberances, dorsally reduced timbal covers, never bifurcated basal pygofer lobe, uncus with dorsal crest and ventral apophyses to restrain aedeagus, and lateral pronotal margins not medially angulate are characteristics unique to the species of the tribe ( Marshall et al. 2018).