Fidicinini Distant, 1905

SANBORN, ALLEN F, 2020, Eight new species and three new records of Neotropical cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from Venezuela, Journal of Insect Biodiversity 16 (1), pp. 6-37 : 7

Tribe Fidicinini Distant, 1905

Fidicinaria Distant 1905a: 310 .

Hyantiaria Distant 1905b: 478 .

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

Remarks. Marshall et al. (2018) synonymized the Hyantiini into the Fidicinini along with several genera previously classified in a number of different tribes and subfamilies. Species of the tribe are found across the majority of the New World being absent only at the higher latitudes ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2013; 2019a; 2020; Sanborn & Heath 2014; 2017; Sanborn & Phillips 2013; Gogala et al. 2015; Ruschel 2017; Dias et al. 2018). Representatives of the Fidicinini can be distinguished by timbal covers that extend anteriorly but expose part of the timbal dorsally, the well developed and usually angulate opercula, the trapezoidal pronotum with the posterior angles sometimes lobately produced, and the distinctly elevated metasternum ( Distant 1905a; Boulard & Martinelli 1996; Marshall et al. 2018). The presence of large protruberances on the hind coxae, dorsally reduced timbal covers, a basal pygofer lobe that is never bifurcate, an uncus with a dorsal crest and ventral apophyses to restrain the aedeagus, and the lack of medially angulate lateral pronotal margins are unique to species of the tribe ( Marshall et al. 2018).