Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Sanborn, Allen F., 2018, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records, Zootaxa 4493 (1), pp. 1-69 : 20

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scientific name	Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843
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Genus Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 View in CoL View at ENA

Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 472 View in CoL .

TYPE SPECIES. Tettigonia mannifera Fabricius 1803: 36 View in CoL . ( South America )

Remarks. Species of Fidicina present long and wide lateral metascutellar plates that almost reach the timbal coverings and whose timbal covers almost close the timbal cavities to distinguish them from species of Fidicinoides ( Boulard & Martinelli 1996) . The majority of historic species of the genus have been reassigned to Fidicinoides and other genera ( Sanborn 2013).

Distribution. Species of the genus have been recorded from the Antilles, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a; 2011b; 2013; 2014; Sanborn & Heath 2014).

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