Tibicininae Distant, 1905

Ruschel, Tatiana Petersen, 2018, Gibbocicada brasiliana, new genus and new species from Brazil and a key for the genera of Tibicinini (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (2), pp. 559-566 : 560

Tibicininae Distant, 1905

Diagnosis (modified from MARSHALLet al. 2018). Metanotum entirely concealed at dorsal midline (except in Platypedia Uhler, 1888 and Tibicina Kolenati, 1857 ). Fore wing veins CuP and 1A unfused (fused in Platypedia and Neoplatypedia Davis, 1920 , and partially fused in Gibbocicada gen. nov.). Hind wing veins RP and Munfused at their bases. Male operculum with distinctive S-shape and deeply concave lateral margins (except in Gibbocicada gen. nov.), and with distal margins not reaching distal marginsof tympanal cavities. Abdominal timbal cavity lacking timbal covers or with a partial turned-back rim. Pygofer with distal shoulder undeveloped; pygofer upper lobe usually absent (present in Selymbriini Moulds & Marshall, 2018 ). Uncus exceedingly long and non-retractable within pygofer. Claspers absent. Aedeagus with ventrobasal pocket present; aedeagus restrained by tubular encapsulation below uncus.Apical part of theca with apair ofleaf-like lateral lobes (exceptin Gibbocicada gen. nov.).