Hemisciera Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Sanborn, Allen F., 2018, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records, Zootaxa 4493 (1), pp. 1-69 : 37

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scientific name	Hemisciera Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843
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Genus Hemisciera Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 View in CoL

Hemisciera Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 466 View in CoL .

TYPE SPECIES. Cicada maculipennis de Laporte, 1832: 412 View in CoL . ( 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).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Cicadidae
SubFamily	Cicadinae
Tribe	Fidicinini
SubTribe	Fidicinina