Fidicinoides poulaini 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 : 15

Fidicinoides poulaini Boulard & Martinelli, 1996

Fidicinoides poulaini Boulard & Martinelli 1996: 73 . (Centro de Investigacion Jenaro Herrera, Requena, Loreto Province, Peru)

REMARKS. Another of the Peruvian Fidicinoides species with infuscation along the ambient veins of the fore wings and hind wings. The infuscation is found on all crossveins and veins between apical cells in the fore wings in F. descampsi as it is in F. duckensis , 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 triangular male opercula, and the shorter uncal crest that starts to broaden at the base. It can be distinguished from F. duckensis by the triangular opercula, and the uncal crest and lateral uncal lobes are about the same length and width. 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 meracanthus reaching the posterior opercular margin, the primary spine in the fore femur is almost against the femur, and the uncal crest and lateral uncus lobes are about the same length and width.

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported from Ecuador and Peru ( Sanborn 2013). The first record for Brazil is provided below to provide a more complete representation of the range of the species.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. “ PERU: Loreto Dept., / Explorama Lodge , 50 mi. / NE Iquitos on Amazon R. / 12–19- III-1988. / J. E. Eger, coll.” one male and one female ( AFSC); “ PERU: Dept. Loreto, 160km / NE Iquitos, Explornapo / Camp, 2 km from Rio / Napo on Rio Sucuaari / 27–31-VIII-1992 / Castner, Skelley, et al. ” one male ( AFSC); “ PERU: Dpto. Loreto / Quebrada Orán ca 5 km / N Rio Amazonas, 85 km / NE Iquitos, el. 110 m / VI-1984 L.J. Barkley ” one male ( AFSC).

MATERIAL EXAMINED FOR NEW RECORD FOR BRAZIL. “ Diorama, GO, Brazil / Agrotec/ Mata Galeria / 15/11/2013 / Maccagnan, D.H.B. col // CE-UEG / no 00266 // Fidicinoides poulaini / Boulard & Martnelli (sic), 1996 / Maccagnan, D (2015), id ” one male ( AFSC).