Taphurini Distant, 1905f

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Suriname including the description of two new species, five new combinations, and three new records, Zootaxa 4881 (3), pp. 453-481 : 471

Tribe Taphurini Distant, 1905f

Taphuraria Distant 1905f: 25.

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

Remarks. A head that is wider than the maximum width of the pronotum, subquadrate pronotum not distinctly narrowed anteriorly, pronotal lateral margins not developed or dilated, small, narrow male opercula curving towards the abdominal midline but remaining widely separated and not covering the 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 are large and ornamented, especially in Taphura , distinguish members of the Taphurini ( Moulds 2005; Sanborn 2017a; Marshall et al. 2018). Historically any small species of uncertain classification was placed in the Taphurini as illustrated by previously assigned Taphurini genera recently being reassigned to seven tribes in four subfamilies ( Marshall et al. 2018).