Tibicininae Distant, 1905d

Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records, Zootaxa 4655 (1), pp. 1-104 : 91

Subfamily Tibicininae Distant, 1905d

REMARKS. The Tibicininae can be distinguished by the metanotum being entirely concealed on the dorsal midline, fore wing cubitus posterior and anal vein 1 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 the posterior margins of the tympanal cavities, males without abdominal timbal covers or with partially recurved rim, the male pygofer with an undeveloped distal shoulder, pygofer upper lobes absent (present only in the Selymbriini Moulds and Marshall, 2018 (in Marshall et al. 2018)), very long and non-retractable uncus within the pygofer, claspers absent, aedeagus with a ventrobasal pocket, restrained by tubular encapsulation below uncus, and apical theca with a pair of leaf-like lateral lobes ( Marshall et al. 2018).