Tibicininae Distant, 1905d

Sanborn, Allen F., 2018, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records, Zootaxa 4493 (1), pp. 1-69 : 58

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 posterior margins of tympanal cavities, males without abdominal timbal covers or with partially recurved rim, the male pygofer with undeveloped distal shoulder, pygofer upper lobes absent (present only in the Selymbriini Moulds and Marshall, 2018 (in Marshall et al. 2018)), uncus very long and non-retractable within pygofer, claspers absent, aedeagus with ventrobasal pocket, restrained by tubular encapsulation below uncus, apical theca with a pair of leaf-like lateral lobes ( Marshall et al. 2018).