Fidicina mannifera ( Fabricius, 1803 )

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the description of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records, Zootaxa 4880 (1), pp. 1-80 : 18

Fidicina mannifera ( Fabricius, 1803)

Tettigonia mannifera Fabricius 1803: 36 . (South America)

Cicada cantatrix Germar 1830: 41 .

Fidicina rana Walker 1850: 88 . (Unknown collecting locality)

Fidicina excavata Walker 1850: 92 . (South America)

Fidicina divisa Walker 1858a: 16 . ( Demerara, Guyana)

Fidicina africana Metcalf 1955 nom. nov. pro Cideaa (sic) plebeja Linné, 1767 nec Cicada plebja Scopoli, 1763: 267 .

REMARKS.— Fidicina mannifera is generally smaller than F. ethelae with a wingspan less than 130 mm. Structures that can distinguish the species further include the timbal cover of the male does not extend below the metascutellar plate, the male operculum forms an approximate equilateral triangle, the fore femora proximal spine is parallel to the femoral axis and the apical femoral spine is almost upright, and the lateral branch of the uncus is flat and does not recurve in F. mannifera .

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been recorded from the Antilles, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Suriname ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Dorval et al. 2011; Maccagnan & Martinelli 2011; Sanborn 2011a, b; 2013; 2014a; 2018c; 2019b; 2020b; Dias et al. 2017). However, some of these references may correspond to one or more of the species that have a similar appearance to F. mannifera that were described by Boulard & Martinelli (1996). The species has been reported from Coca, Orellana province ( Jacobi 1907a) and Macas, Morona Santiago province ( Goding 1925) in Ecuador.