Fidicina christinae 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 : 12

Fidicina christinae Boulard & Martinelli, 1996 new record

Fidicina christinae Boulard & Martinelli 1996: 32 . (Surroundings of Régina on the Oyapock, French Guiana)

REMARKS. This is the smallest of the Bolivian Fidicina species (body length 35 mm of less). The head and prothorax are green in fresh specimens. Of the Bolivian species, it is the only one where the male opercula cannot be seen clearly projecting laterally when viewed from the dorsal surface. The posterolateral corner of the male operculum is semicircular while it is more triangular in all other Bolivian species. The timbal cover of the male extends slightly below the metascutellar plate. The fore femora primary and apical spines being angled with respect to the femoral axis, and the lateral branch of the uncus is straight.

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

MATERIAL EXAMINED FOR NEW RECORD. “ BOLIVIA, Dept. Santa / Cruz , Chiquitos 10– / 20 km ENE Santiago / 28–30–XI–1982 / N. H. Williams ” one male ( FSCA).