Genus Hemisciera Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Hemisciera Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 466 .

TYPE SPECIES. Cicada maculipennis de Laporte, 1832: 412 . (French Guiana and Brazil)

Remarks. Species of the genus Hemisciera are distinguished easily from all other Fidicinini by the bright green basal area of the fore wings and bright red on the basal area of the hind wings.

Distribution. The genus has been recorded from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Panama, and Peru (Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; Sanborn & Heath 2014). Panamanian specimens are reported from Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone, 120 m altitude in lowland forest (Wolda & Ramos 1992).