Fidicinoides pseudethelae 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 pseudethelae

description: Fidicinoides pseudethelae Boulard and Martinelli, 1996
Head (Fig. 4A): lateral ocelli and the medial ocellus situated on an irregular-shaped, broad black mark which stops short of the base of the antennae and vertex; median ocellus in frontal position; distance between the lateral ocelli nearly three times the distance that separates them from the corresponding eyes; eyes in short ellipsoids, wide, oblique, with subocular joined marks; postclypeus dorsal portion short and arched; postclypeus face arched, brown, with nine transverse ridges on both sides of the medial furrow; anteclypeus black; rostrum brownish, long, with apex reaching the level of the insertion of the hind trochanters.
Thorax (Fig. 4A): pronotum longer than the head; lateral angle of pronotal collar poorly developed; mesonotum brown, with black markings; lateral sigilla triangular, dark near the pronotum and apices, lighter in the central area; submedian sigilla short, dark and curved; two joined or separated, irregular-shaped markings, scutal depression with almost circular black marks; cruciform elevation flattened, with posterior apices short, pointed and close together (Fig. 4A); operculum with short lamina, with wide, slightly arched, ochre and brown lamina.
Abdomen (Fig. 4B): Shorter than the distance from the vertex to the back apices of the cruciform elevation; broad base, tapering in the direction of the last abdominal section; blackened tergites; black timbal cover, arched and with black markings; brownish sternites with green markings; male sternite VIII nearly twice as wide as long, with the anterior margin almost straight, lateral margin oblique, with a concavity approximately midway, posterior margin concave and rounded, with apices apart from one another (Fig. 4D).
Forewing (Fig. 4C): hyaline; dark brown fumose on the apical area; forewing wide, with basal cell opaque, black; costa long and brownish, becoming brown at the apical area; the extremities of the veins with dark brown fumose markings on both sides; radial, radiomedial, medial and mediocubital crossveins with strong dark brown infuscation, the ambient vein also being the same colour; apical area octoloculate.
Examined material: FRENCH GUIANA. MNHN / Paris. 25.IV.1992. (M. Thouvenot), 1 paratype ♂; ibidem, 16.XII.1992. 1 paratype ♀; BRAZIL. Pará: Cachimbo. FIOC. 21.IX.1955, 18.I.1956. (L. Travassos and S. Oliveira), 4 ♂♂; ibidem, 09.X.1956. (Travassos, Oliveira and Adão), 35 ♂♂; ibidem, Amazonas: Humaitá. FCA / UNESP / Botucatu. X.1974. (Scivittaro), 4 ♂♂; ibidem, Rio Juavá. INPA. 02.VIII.1980. (Francisco, B.), 1 ♂; Rondônia: Porto Velho. INPA. 26.I.1980. (P. Arias and J. Arias), 1 ♂.
Comments: Large-sized species, similar to Fidicinoides dolosa Santos and Martinelli 2009 but distinguished by the submedian sigilla being comma-shaped internal marks 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 344, DOI: 10.25100/socolen.v37i2.9098, http://zenodo.org/record/8380536