Fidicinini Distant, 1905d

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the description of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records, Zootaxa 4880 (1), pp. 1-80 : 17

Tribe Fidicinini Distant, 1905d

Fidicinaria Distant 1905d: 310 .

Hyantiaria Distant 1905c: 478 .

TYPE GENUS.— Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 472 .

REMARKS.—The Fidicinini increased in diversity with the synonymy of the Hyantiini along with the addition of several genera previously classified in a number of different tribes by Marshal et al. (2018). Tribal characteristics include timbal covers that extend anteriorly exposing part of the dorsal timbal, well developed and usually angulate opercula, a trapezoidal pronotum that sometimes possess lobately produced posterior angles, and the distinctly elevated metasternum found in the genera of the Fidicinini ( Distant 1905d; Boulard & Martinelli 1996; Marshall et al. 2018). The large protruberances on the hind coxae, dorsally reduced timbal covers, a basal pygofer lobe that never is bifurcated, an uncus with a dorsal crest and ventral apophyses to restrain the aedeagus, and the absence of medially angulate lateral pronotal margins are unique to the species of the tribe ( Marshall et al. 2018).