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December 27, 2018

Fidicinoides cachla (Distant, 1899)

Filed under: Costa Rica | Fidicinini | Fidicinoides | Rhynchota | W. L. Distant — Tags: — Dan @ 1:01 am

Fidicinoides cachla (Distant, 1899) is a cicada found in Costa Rica.

Fidicinoides cachla was formerly known as Fidicina cachla. Its name changed when it moved from the Fidicina Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 genus to the Fidicinoides Boulard & Martinelli, 1996 genus.

Scientific classification:
Family: Cicadidae
Subfamily: Cicadinae
Tribe: Fidicinini
SubTribe: Fidicinina
Genus: Fidicinoides
Species: Fidicinoides cachla (Distant, 1899)


The image says Fidicina cachla, but this newest name of this cicada is Fidicinoides cachla.

References:

  1. The illustration comes from Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Homoptera. Vol. 1. By W. L. Distant F.E.S. and The Rev. Canon W. W. Fowler, F.L.S. (1881-1905). Read it on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website.
  2. Species name verification comes from Allen Sanborn’s Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha).

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