Zammara Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

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 : 9-10

Genus Zammara Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Type species. Tettigonia tympanum Fabricius 1803: 40 . (Brazil)

REMARKS. Goemans (2016) has revised the genus recently. Species of the genus can be distinguished by the two tarsomeres, and the median and cubitus anterior veins arising together from the basal cell with no space between them ( Goemans 2010; 2016).

DISTRIBUTION. Species of the genus have been reported from Antigua, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a, b; 2013; 2014a; 2018b; Sanborn & Maes 2012; Maes et al. 2012; Sanborn & Heath 2014; Goemans 2016).