Fidicinoides besti Boulard and Martinelli 1996
Creators: name: Santos, Rodrigo S.
name: Martinelli, Nilza M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Fidicinoides
Fidicinoides besti

description: Fidicinoides besti Boulard and Martinelli, 1996
Head (Fig. 1A): lateral ocelli and medial ocellus situated on a black transverse irregular shaped band which extends to the base of the antennae and vertex; median ocellus in a sub-frontal position; distance between lateral ocelli nearly two and half times the distance that separates them from the corresponding eyes; salient eyes, rounded, oblique, with joined sub-ocular marks; postclypeus dorsal portion short and arched; postclypeus face distinctly arched, ochre, with nine dark transverse ridges on both sides of the medial furrow; black anteclypeus; rostrum brownish, long, with the apex reaching the base of the hind trochanters.
Thorax (Fig. 1A): pronotum longer than head; with four shallow furrows; lateral angle of pronotal collar poorly developed and brownish; mesonotum light brownish, with submedian sigilla dark brown well-defined and comma-shaped; the lateral sigilla light brown; a transverse, irregular-shaped stripe and two small black punctiform marks, above the cruciform elevation; cruciform elevation not very long, flattened and with the back apices short, rounded and close together (Fig. 1A); operculum very short, in small arched, ochre-coloured lamina.
Abdomen (Fig. 1B): a little shorter than the distance from the vertex to the back apices of the cruciform elevation; broad base, not tapering towards the last abdominal segment; ochre tergites; timbal cover dorsally short; sternites ochre, including the last abdominal segment; male sternite VIII twice as long as wide, with anterior margin almost straight, lateral margin oblique, and the posterior margin invaginated (Fig. 1D).
Forewing (Fig. 1C): hyaline; light brown fumose on the apical area; forewing with blackened basal cell; costal vein relatively short and ochre; veins ochre, becoming brownish in the apical area; the extremities of the veins with dark brown markings on both sides, and with deep brown infuscation on the radial and radiomedial crossveins; ambient vein dark brown; apical area octoloculate.
Examined material: BRAZIL. Amazonas: Amaná Lake. INPA. 17.IX.1979. (Best. R.), Holotype ♂; ibidem, 13.IX.1979, 5 paratypes ♂♂; Rio Negro. 28.VIII.1969. (several collectors), 1 ♂, ibidem, Humaitá. FCA / UNESP / Botucatu. X.1974. (Scivittaro), 3 ♂♂; ibidem, Ducke Reserve. INPA. 14.VIII.1969. (A. Faustino), 1 ♂; Rondônia: Porto Velho. INPA. 01.IX.1979, 07.IX.1979, 28.IX.1979. (J. Campbell), 7 ♂♂; ibidem, Vilhena. INPA. 06.XI.1979. (Penny and Arias), 1 ♂; Mato Grosso: Humbolt Reserve, Colina Highway. INPA. 26.IX.1975, 27.IX.1975, 03.X.1975. (L. P. Albuquerque and J. B. Moraes), 3 ♂♂; Pará: Cachimbo. FIOCRUZ. 09.X.1956. (Travassos, Oliveira and Adão), 4 ♂♂.
Comment: Medium-sized species, similar to F. brunnea, but distinguished by the submedian sigilla, being comma-shaped on the mesonotum.
description: Published as part of Santos, Rodrigo S. & Martinelli, Nilza M., 2011, Morphological characterisation of five brazilian species of Fidicinoides (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), pp. 341-345 in Revista Colombiana de Entomología 37 (2) on page 342, DOI: 10.25100/socolen.v37i2.9098, http://zenodo.org/record/8380536