Fidicinini Distant, 1905d

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 : 10

Tribe Fidicinini Distant, 1905d

Fidicinaria Distant 1905d: 310 .

Hyantiaria Distant 1905c: 478 .

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

REMARKS. The Hyantiini was synonymized into the Fidicinini by Marshall et al. (2018) along with several genera previously classified in a number of different tribes and subfamilies. Species of the tribe extend across the majority of the New World being absent only at the higher latitudes ( Metcalf 1963 s; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2013; 2019b; Sanborn & Heath 2012; 2014; Sanborn & Phillips 2013). Species of the Fidicinini can be distinguished by anteriorly extending timbal covers that expose part of the timbal dorsally, well developed and usually angulate opercula, trapezoidal pronotum with posterior angles sometimes lobately produced, and a distinctly elevated metasternum ( Distant 1905d; Boulard & Martinelli 1996). Species of the tribe are unique in their possession of large protruberances on the hind coxae, dorsally reduced timbal covers, basal pygofer lobe that is never bifurcate, uncus with dorsal crest and ventral apophyses to restrain aedeagus, and lack of medially angulate lateral pronotal margins ( Marshall et al. 2018).