Fidicina robini Boulard & Martinelli 1996

Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records, Zootaxa 4655 (1), pp. 1-104 : 13

Fidicina robini Boulard & Martinelli 1996 new record

Fidicina robini Boulard & Martinelli 1996: 38 . (Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil)

REMARKS. Fidicina robini is generally larger than F. mannifera and F. christinae with a wingspan greater than 130 mm but is similar in size to F. ethelae . The species can be distinguished further by the timbal cover of the male not extend below the metascutellar plate, the male operculum with a more rounded posterolateral margin, the fore femora proximal and apical spines being upright with respect to the femoral axis, and the lateral branch of the uncus is straight terminating in a point.

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been recorded previously from Brazil and French Guiana (Sanborn 2011a; 2013).

MATERIAL EXAMINED FOR NEW RECORD. “ BOLIVIA: Prov. Andrés Ibáñez / Dept. de Santa Cruz, 1,369 ft. / Potrerillos del Guenda / W. of Santa Cruz // Dec. 13/15, 2009 at MV & BL / S-17.67089º / W-63.45761º / N.J. Smith, A.J. Gilbert, & / J. Aramayo Bejarano ” one female ( UCDC).