Cicadettinae Buckton, 1890

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 : 34

Subfamily Cicadettinae Buckton, 1890

REMARKS.—Species of the Cicadettinae are distinguished by possessing a metanotum that is partially visible on the dorsal midline, the partial fusion of fore wing cubitus posterior and anal vein 1, the fused bases of the hind wing radius posterior and median veins, male opercula that are not strongly S-shaped nor with a deeply concave lateral margin, males without abdominal timbal covers, an undeveloped distal shoulder of the male pygofer, the presence of pygofer upper lobes, large claspers that dominate abdominal segment 10 and lack spines, a small uncus if present, an aedeagus that lacks a ventrobasal pocket and is restrained by claspers, and the absence of leaf-like lateral lobes on the apical theca ( Moulds 2005; Marshall et al. 2018).