Tibicininae Distant, 1905d

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the description of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records, Zootaxa 4880 (1), pp. 1-80 : 67

Subfamily Tibicininae Distant, 1905d

REMARKS.—Species of the Tibicininae can be distinguished by the metanotum being entirely concealed on the dorsal midline, the unfused fore wing cubitus posterior and anal vein 1, the hind wing radius posterior and median veins are unfused at their bases, male opercula distinctively S-shaped with a deeply concave lateral margin not reaching the posterior margins of tympanal cavities, males lack abdominal timbal covers or have timbal covers with a partially recurved rim, the male pygofer has an undeveloped distal shoulder, pygofer upper lobes are absent (present only in the Selymbriini Moulds and Marshall, 2018 (in Marshall et al. 2018)), the uncus is very long and non-retractable within the pygofer, claspers are absent, the aedeagus has a ventrobasal pocket and is restrained by a tubular encapsulation below the uncus, and the apical theca have a pair of leaf-like lateral lobes ( Marshall et al. 2018).