Fidicina mannifera ( Fabricius, 1803 )

Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records, Zootaxa 4655 (1), pp. 1-104 : 13

Fidicina mannifera ( Fabricius, 1803)

Tettigonia mannifera Fabricius 1803: 36 . (South America)

Cicada cantatrix Germar 1830: 41 .

Fidicina rana Walker 1850: 88 . (Unknown collecting locality)

Fidicina excavata Walker 1850: 92 . (South America)

Fidicina divisa Walker 1858a: 16 . ( Demerara, Guyana)

Fidicina africana Metcalf 1955 nom. nov. pro Cideaa (sic) plebeja Linné, 1767 nec Cicada plebeja Scopoli, 1763: 267 .

REMARKS. Fidicina mannifera is generally smaller than F. ethelae and F. robini with a wingspan less than 130 mm but larger than F. christinae . The species can be distinguished further by the timbal cover of the male not extending below the metascutellar plate, the male operculum being an approximate equilateral triangle, the fore femora proximal spine being parallel to the femoral axis and the apical femoral spine being almost upright, and the lateral branch of the uncus is flat and does not recurve.

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been recorded from the Antilles, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Suriname ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Dorval et al. 2011; Maccagnan & Martinelli 2011; Sanborn 2011a; 2011b; 2013; 2014a; 2018c; Dias et al. 2017). Some of these references may correspond to one or more of the species similar to F. mannifera described by Boulard & Martinelli (1996).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. “ BOLIVIA: Prov. Andrés Ibáñez / Dept. de Santa Cruz, 1,369 ft. / Potrerillos del Guenda / W. of Santa Cruz // Dec. 13/15, 2009 at MV & BL / S-17.67089º / W-63.45761º / N.J. Smith, A.J. Gilbert, & / J. Aramayo Bejarano ” one female ( UCDC).