Zammarini Distant, 1905b

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 : 12

Tribe Zammarini Distant, 1905b

Zammararia Distant 1905b: 380 .

Dazini Kato 1932: 171 .

Plautillaria Distant 1905h: 563 . n. syn.

TYPE GENUS.— Zammara Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 468 .

REMARKS.—These are the New World cicadas with ampliated lateral pronotal margins, hyaline fore wings and hind wings that are more or less spotted and possess a timbal cover that partially or entirely exposes the timbal. The distinguishing tribal characteristics are a combination of hind coxae with a large inner protuberance, timbal covers that are reduced dorsally or form a curled ridge along the posterior timbal cavity, a usually bifurcate basal pygofer lobe, an uncus that lacks a dorsal crest, and an aedeagus restrained by ventral apophyses ( Marshall et al. 2018; Sanborn 2018a). The genera were recently assigned to one of two subtribes with the synonymy of the Dazini and the shape and size of the timbal covers ( Sanborn 2018a). A third subtribe is described below for the synonymized Plautillini rev. stat.