Cicadettinae Buckton, 1890

Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records, Zootaxa 4655 (1), pp. 1-104 : 47

Subfamily Cicadettinae Buckton, 1890

REMARKS. Cicadas of the Cicadettinae can be distinguished by the metanotum being partially visible on the dorsal midline, the fore wing cubitus posterior and anal vein 1 are partially fused, hind wing radius posterior and median veins fused at their bases, male opercula not strongly S-shaped nor with a deeply concave lateral margin, males without abdominal timbal covers, the male pygofer with an undeveloped distal shoulder, pygofer upper lobes present, large, not spined claspers dominating abdominal segment 10 (except in the Katoini Moulds and Marshall, 2018 (in Marshall et al. 2018)), small uncus, an aedeagus without a ventrobasal pocket and restrained by claspers, and the apical theca lacking leaf-like lateral lobes ( Moulds 2005; Marshall et al. 2018).