Tribe Zammarini Distant, 1905b
Zammararia Distant 1905b: 380 .
Dazini Kato 1932: 171 .
Plautillaria Distant 1905h: 563 . n. syn.
TYPE GENUS.— Zammara Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 468 .
REMARKS.—These are the New World cicadas with ampliated lateral pronotal margins, hyaline fore wings and hind wings that are more or less spotted and possess a timbal cover that partially or entirely exposes the timbal. The distinguishing tribal characteristics are a combination of hind coxae with a large inner protuberance, timbal covers that are reduced dorsally or form a curled ridge along the posterior timbal cavity, a usually bifurcate basal pygofer lobe, an uncus that lacks a dorsal crest, and an aedeagus restrained by ventral apophyses (Marshall et al. 2018; Sanborn 2018a). The genera were recently assigned to one of two subtribes with the synonymy of the Dazini and the shape and size of the timbal covers (Sanborn 2018a). A third subtribe is described below for the synonymized Plautillini rev. stat.