taxonID	type	description	language	source
03B94A72EA65FFA2FF5EFF43FCE7592B.taxon	materials_examined	Type species: Cicada calliope Walker, 1850: 212. Included species: calliope calliope (Walker 1850: 212) comb n., calliope floridensis (Davis 1920: 131) comb. n., camerona (Davis 1920: 134) comb. n., kansa (Davis 1919: 340) comb. n., ramosi (Sanborn 2009: 1) comb. n., texana (Davis 1936: 105) comb. n.	en	Marshall, David C., Hill, Kathy B. R. (2017): A new genus for North American Cicadetta species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Zootaxa 4306 (4): 537-550, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.4.5
03B94A72EA65FFA2FF5EFF43FCE7592B.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The stem " Cicadetta " followed by the letters " n " and " a " referring to North America. Gender feminine. Zoobank LSID: urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: A 8 B 153 EA-D 5 AD- 4 D 58 - BA 52 - D 597 F 0 FDAAFC	en	Marshall, David C., Hill, Kathy B. R. (2017): A new genus for North American Cicadetta species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Zootaxa 4306 (4): 537-550, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.4.5
03B94A72EA65FFA2FF5EFF43FCE7592B.taxon	distribution	Distribution. The eastern and central USA, and Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles (Sanborn 2009; Sanborn & Phillips 2013). USA records extend to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains but exclude New England, the northern Great Lakes region, and the northern Great Plains. Cicadettana camerona has a restricted distribution in southern Texas but may extend into Mexico.	en	Marshall, David C., Hill, Kathy B. R. (2017): A new genus for North American Cicadetta species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Zootaxa 4306 (4): 537-550, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.4.5
03B94A72EA65FFA2FF5EFF43FCE7592B.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis (see also Figs. 2, 3). Small cicadas (ca. 12 – 20 mm length, excluding wings) with narrow to moderate-width bodies and primarily brown and / or green color with only limited black marks. Head including eyes as wide as mesonotum or narrower; supra-antennal plate nearly meeting eye; postclypeus broadly rounded transversely across ventral midline (dorsal view), in lateral profile angular at most anterior part. Thorax: pronotum in dorsal view parallel-sided or widening towards posterior; pronotal collar width at midline less than diameter of eyes; paranota confluent with adjoining pronotal sclerites (sometimes subtle ampliation in calliope calliope), no mid lateral tooth; cruciform elevation wider than long; epimeral lobe not reaching operculum. Fore Wings hyaline, with 8 apical cells (rarely 7); subapical cells absent; ulnar cell 3 angled to radial cell; apical cell 8 (or 7 if only seven apical cells) with its maximum height at least 1 / 2 of its width along the ambient vein; basal cell longer than wide, narrowing distally; costal vein not clearly higher than R + Sc; costa parallel-sided to node or gently widening; costa of male gently and evenly curved; pterostigma absent to partial (incomplete distally); vein CuA bowed so that cubital cell wider than medial cell; veins M and CuA meeting basal cell with their stems completely fused as one; vein RA 1 aligned closely with Sc for its length and not diverging in subapical region; vein CuA 1 divided by crossvein m-cu so that proximal portion shortest; veins CuP and 1 A fused in part; distance between cross veins r and r-m most often about equal to distance between r-m and m (rarely less than); apical cells 3 – 6 about equal to or longer than ulnar cells; radial cell length somewhat less than from its apex to wing tip; wing outer margin developed for its total length, never reduced to be confluent with ambient vein. Hind wings with 5 – 6 apical cells (most commonly six in calliope); no infuscation on ambient vein; width of 1 st cubital cell at distal end at least twice that of 2 nd cubital cell; anal lobe broad with vein 3 A curved, long, separated from wing margin; veins RP and M fixed basally. Fore leg usually with four femoral spines, three well-developed; femoral primary spine erect. Male opercula of variable length across species, only sometimes reaching margin of tympanal cavity or beyond, apically broadly rounded, not meeting along medial margins, raised above level of tympanal cavity on their outer halves or so (less so in camerona). Male abdomen as wide as or a little wider than thorax; tergites in cross-section with sides straight or weakly convex; epipleurites reflexed ventrally from junction with tergites; tergite 1 narrow along dorsal midline; tergite 2 sometimes wider than tergites 3 – 7 (but not in calliope); sternites somewhat swollen so as to be visible in lateral view; sternites III – VI in cross-section convex, gently and evenly rounded; sternite VIII about as long as sternite VII (but sternite VIII much longer in camerona). Timbals with two long ribs spanning the full height of the timbal and two shorter ribs, with no intermediate ribs; basal dome large; anterior part of timbal mostly occupied by ribs; timbals rarely extending slightly below wing bases; timbal covers absent.	en	Marshall, David C., Hill, Kathy B. R. (2017): A new genus for North American Cicadetta species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Zootaxa 4306 (4): 537-550, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.4.5
03B94A72EA65FFA2FF5EFF43FCE7592B.taxon	description	Male genitalia. Pygofer in ventral view ovoid to sub ovoid in shape, distal portion of upper pygofer lobes not the widest point, not strongly tapered from upper pygofer lobes to base; distal shoulders not developed; upper lobes flat, moderately developed, set well away from dorsal beak, rounded; basal lobes undivided, moderately to weakly developed, rounded in lateral view, abutted against or partly tucked behind pygofer margin; dorsal beak present as a developed apical spine or pointed apex (visible in dorsal view) and a part of chitinized pygofer, more weakly present in texana and camerona. Uncus small, short, flattened, more or less duck-bill shaped. Claspers well developed, large, dominant, restraining aedeagus; claw-like with cavity lateroventrally, unfused, lacking a rounded, inward-facing swelling on proximal half or so of inner margin, diverging towards distal ends (parallel in texana and camerona), their apices not forming the widest dimension of the claspers. Aedeagus with basal plate in lateral view undulated, weakly depressed on dorsal midline, in dorsal view as long as or longer than broad, apically broadened with ' ears', basal portion of basal plate directed forwards away from thecal shaft; junction between theca and basal plate with a functional ' hinge' with a partly chitinous back; thecal shaft nearly straight; pseudoparameres present, dorsal of theca and originating distal of thecal base, in dorsal view parallel or turning in then gradually diverging, in lateral view aligned with thecal shaft for much of their length with proximal half or so in line with ventral support; endotheca exposed, soft, entirely fleshy; endothecal ventral support present, of medium length (no more than about half the length of pseudoparameres); thecal subapical cerci absent; flabellum absent; conjunctival claws absent; vesical opening apical on theca. Male reproductive system unknown. Female dorsal beak with a developed apical spine or pointed apex (visible in dorsal view). Female reproductive system unknown. Distinguishing features. Cicadettana species possess the following attributes that place them within the subfamily Cicadettinae, tribe Cicadettini, following Moulds (2005): Pygofer with large ventral claspers dominating the 10 th abdominal segment; pygofer upper lobe flat; aedeagus with paired pseudoparameres; timbals not much extending below wing bases. The initial comparison of the six Cicadettana taxa to the type species of Cicadetta (C. montana) yielded several differences in generic-level characters, confirming the distant phylogenetic relationship indicated by the molecular data. Unlike the Cicadettana species, Cicadetta montana possesses the following distinguishing attributes: fore wing veins M and Cu with stems meeting at basal cell but commonly not fused (but sometimes briefly fused as in C. brevipennis, see Fig. 8 in Hertach et al. 2016); hind wing with infuscation at the distal end of vein 2 A; claspers with their apices widely separated and clearly forming the widest dimension of the claspers; pseudoparameres much longer than theca; and thecal ventral support absent (see Moulds 2005 and Fig. 128 in Moulds 2012). Compared to the remaining Cicadettini genera studied here, Cicadettana is distinguishable by the following combination of characters: (1) paranota confluent with adjoining pronotal sclerites (sometimes subtle ampliation in calliope calliope), with no mid-lateral tooth; (2) fore wing radial cell length somewhat less than the distance from its apex to wing tip; (3) timbals with two long ribs spanning the full height of the timbal, usually with two shorter ribs and no intervening ribs; (4) male sternites somewhat swollen so that each is visible in lateral profile (not scored for ramosi); (5) male sternite VIII about as long as sternite VII (except camerona); and (6) claspers curved (in lateral view) and claw-like with cavity lateroventrally (more fang-like in camerona but still curved). This combination of characters is sufficient to distinguish Cicadettana from all described Cicadettini genera possessing a trifid aedeagus. To these, however, can be added the following additional external characters examined for the most closely related genera (the R 2 clade of Marshall et al. 2016): (7) body color brown and / or green with limited black marks dorsally (as opposed to a dominant black background color in many other genera); (8) wings hyaline with pterostigma absent to partial (sometimes almost complete in texana and kansa); (9) fore wing apical cell 8 (or 7 if only seven apical cells) with its maximum height at least 1 / 2 of its width along the ambient vein (but not in ramosi); (10) male sternites III – VI in cross-section convex and evenly rounded (not scored for ramosi).	en	Marshall, David C., Hill, Kathy B. R. (2017): A new genus for North American Cicadetta species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Zootaxa 4306 (4): 537-550, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.4.5
