Fidicina obscura Boulard & Martinelli, 1996

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Peru including the description of twenty-four new species, three new synonymies, and thirty-seven new records, Zootaxa 4785 (1), pp. 1-129 : 11-12

Fidicina obscura Boulard & Martinelli, 1996 new record

Fidicina obscura Boulard & Martinelli 1996: 40 . (San Antonio do Taua, Pará, Brazil)

REMARKS. Fidicina obscura is similar in size to larger examples of F. mannifera with a wingspan less than 125 mm and is smaller than both F. ethelae and F. robini . The species can be distinguished from the other Peruvian Fidicina by the male timbal cover not reaching the metascutellar plate, the male operculum has a semicircular extension on the posterolateral corner, the fore femora proximal and apical spines are angled with respect to the femoral axis and the secondary spine in absent, and the lateral branch of the uncus is recurved as it extends to a spine-like terminus.

DISTRIBUTION. Species have been reported previously from Brazil ( Sanborn 2013).

MATERIAL EXAMINED FOR NEW RECORD. “ PERU: Pos. Amazonas / Dept. Madre de Dios / 12.48.17 -69.17.35 / 1–10 Oct. 2004 / Tim McCabe 100 m ” one male ( NYSM).