Calyria Stål, 1862

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 : 36

Genus Calyria Stål, 1862 new record

Cicada (Calyria) Stål 1862: 22 .

TYPE SPECIES.— Cicada (Calyria) blanda Stål 1862: 22 . (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

REMARKS.—Five apical cells in the hind wings, ocelli that are well separated from the base of the head, and the indistinct fore wing postcostal area distinguish species of Calyria ( Distant 1906a) . The ventrolateral postclypeus is flattened without an obvious apical extension and the pronotum has parallel lateral surfaces for most of its length.

DISTRIBUTION.—Species of the genus have been reported previously from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2013; 2014a; 2019b; 2020a, b, c; Sanborn & Heath 2014).