Tibicininae Distant, 1905a

Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, The cicada genus Selymbria Stål, 1861 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Tibicininae: Selymbrini): redescription including ten new species and a key to the genus, Zootaxa 4614 (3), pp. 401-448 : 403

Subfamily Tibicininae Distant, 1905a

REMARKS. Species of the Tibicininae can be distinguished by the metanotum being entirely concealed on the dorsal midline, the fore wing cubitus posterior and anal vein 1 are unfused (except in the Platypediini Kato, 1932 ), hind wing radius posterior and median veins unfused at their bases, male opercula distinctively S-shaped with deeply concave lateral margin not reaching posterior margins of tympanal cavities (except in the Selymbriini Moulds & Marshall, 2018 (in Marshall et al. 2018)), males without abdominal timbal covers or with partially recurved rim, the male pygofer exhibiting undeveloped distal shoulder, pygofer upper lobes absent (present in some of the Selymbriini ), uncus very long, non-retractable within pygofer, claspers absent, aedeagus with ventrobasal pocket, restrained by a tubular encapsulation below uncus, apical theca with a pair of leaf-like lateral lobes ( Moulds 2005; Marshall et al. 2018).