Taphurini Distant, 1905h

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 : 50

Tribe Taphurini Distant, 1905h

Taphuraria Distant 1905h: 25 .

Type genus. Cicada (Taphura) Stål 1862a: 20 .

REMARKS. Members of the Taphurini exhibit a head wider than maximum pronotum width, subquadrate pronotum not distinctly narrowed anteriorly, not developed or dilated pronotal lateral margins, male opercula being small, narrow, curved towards the abdominal midline but remaining widely separated and not covering tympanal cavity, abdomen about as long as distance between apex of postclypeus and posterior of cruciform elevation, timbals not extending below wing bases, uncus absent but anal tube may possess lateral lobes, upper pygofer lobe small and unsclerotized, and basal lobes of pygofer large and ornamented, especially in Taphura ( Moulds 2005; Sanborn 2017a; Marshall et al. 2018). Historically the Taphurini has been a repository for small species with uncertain classification, a point illustrated by the fact that genera previously assigned to the Taphurini were recently distributed to seven tribes in four subfamilies ( Marshall et al. 2018).