Selymbriini Moulds and Marshall, 2018

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Peru including the description of twenty-four new species, three new synonymies, and thirty-seven new records, Zootaxa 4785 (1), pp. 1-129 : 118

Tribe Selymbriini Moulds and Marshall, 2018 (in Marshall et al. 2018)

Selymbriini Moulds and Marshall 2018 (in Marshall et al. 2018): 53.

Type genus. Selymbria Stål 1861: 615 .

REMARKS. The genus Selymbria was recently reassigned from the Taphurini to a new monogeneric tribe ( Marshall et al. 2018). The basal position of the genus in the multi-gene tree suggests it is an ancient lineage and it is the only genus of Cicadidae to show similarity in the structure of the aedeagus to the species of Tettigarcta of the family Tettigarctidae ( Marshall et al. 2018) . The Selymbriini differ from other Tibicininae by the supra-antennal plate almost meeting eye, males lack of accessory auditory structures, aedeagal basal plate undulating and not right-angled distally, very short theca expanding laterally into a broad flat distal end ornamented with triangular wings like species of Tettigarctidae , and exceedingly long uncus being undivided and not retractable within pygofer ( Marshall et al. 2018).