Fidicina muelleri Distant, 1892b

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 : 18-19

Fidicina muelleri Distant, 1892b

Fidicina mülleri Distant 1892b: 319 . (Santa Catarina, Brazil)

Fidicina mulleri (sic) Goding 1925: 5 .

REMARKS.—The infuscation of all fore wing crossveins connecting to infuscation on the basal apical cell veins except for the radius anterior 2 and radius posterior quickly distinguishes this species from the other Ecuadorian species of Fidicina . It is a dark olivaceous species with piceous markings on the anterior mesothorax and a piceous abdomen, sometimes with castaneous dorsally on the anterior segments. Body length is about 31 mm and wingspan is about 90 mm ( Distant 1892b).

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported from Brazil, Ecuador, and French Guiana ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a). Goding (1925) reported the species from Posorja, Guayas province and Macas, Morona Santiago province.