Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

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 : 10-11

Genus Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 472 .

Type species. Tettigonia mannifera Fabricius 1803: 36 . (South America)

REMARKS. Species of Fidicina are distinguished them from species of Fidicinoides by the long and wide lateral metascutellar plates that almost reach the timbal covers and timbal covers that almost close the timbal cavities ( Boulard & Martinelli 1996). The majority of species that have been classified in the genus historic have been reassigned to Fidicinoides and other genera within the Guyalnina ( Sanborn 2013) . Pogue (1996) listed ten undetermined species as occurring in Peru but most of these are probably members of the genus Fidicinoides Boulard & Martinelli, 1996 , a genus not yet published when the Pogue manuscript was submitted. All the Peruvian species are large (wingspan greater than 100 mm, generally greater than 125 mm) with infuscation on the wing veins.

DISTRIBUTION. Species of the genus have been recorded from the Antilles, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a, b; 2013; 2014a; 2018b; 2019b; Sanborn & Heath 2014).