Fidicinoides kirkaldyi ( Metcalf, 1963 ) Sanborn, 2016

Sanborn, Allen F., 2016, Five new species, a new genus and a new record of cicadas from French Guiana with four new combinations and three new synonymies (Insecta, Hemiptera, Cicadoidea, Cicadidae), Zoosystema 38 (2), pp. 177-199 : 178

Fidicinoides kirkaldyi ( Metcalf, 1963) n. comb.

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Cicada kirkaldyi Metcalf, 1963b: 776 (nom. nov. pro Cicada brasiliensis Kirkaldy, 1909 nec Cicada brasiliensis Gmelin, 1789 ).

Cicada obtusa Uhler, 1903: 11 , n. syn.

Cicada brasiliensis Kirkaldy, 1909: 391 (nom. nov. pro [ Cicada] obtusa Uhler, 1903 nec Cicada obtusa Fabricius, 1787 ), n. syn.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Mato Grosso, Brazil.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — “ Chapada // Braz. / Sept. // Cicada / obtusa / Uhler, / Type.” ♂ ( CMNH); “ Chapada // Braz. / Sept. // Cicada / obtusa / Uhler, / Type.” ♂ ( USNM).

DISTRIBUTION. — Specimens have been reported previously from Brazil ( Uhler 1903).

REMARKS

While examining species in an attempt to identify the new species described here, I determined that Cicada obtusa Uhler, 1903 should actually be assigned to the genus Fidicinoides . I have studied syntype specimens of Cicada obtusa in the CMNH and USNM. The species has not been discussed in the literature other than the original description ( Uhler 1903), being catalogued by Henshaw (1903), Distant (1906a, 1912) or Sanborn (2013), and the renaming of the species by Kirkaldy (1909) and Metcalf (1963b) due to the previously given name being preoccupied. The lateral metascutellar plate is rudimentary, the dorsal timbal cover is open to the timbal cavity so the timbal is visible dorsolaterally, and the eyes do not extend beyond the lateral margins of the pronotum in the syntype of C. obtusa meeting the characteristics of the genus Fidicinoides ( Boulard & Martinelli 1996) . Thus, Cicada obtusa is determined here to be a member of the genus Fidicinoides and its synonyms, Cicada obtusa Uhler, 1903 , Cicada brasiliensis Kirkaldy, 1909 and Cicada kirkaldyi ( Metcalf, 1963) , are hereby transferred to the genus Fidicinoides to become Fidicinoides kirkaldyi ( Metcalf, 1963) n. comb.

Figures

FIG. 1. — Fidicinoides kirkaldyi (Metcalf, 1963b) n. comb. Syntype ♂ (CMNH). Scale bar: 2 cm.