Cicadettinae Buckton, 1889

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 : 40

Subfamily Cicadettinae Buckton, 1889

Remarks. The Cicadettinae can be distinguished by the metanotum being partially visible on the dorsal midline, fore wing cubitus posterior and anal vein 1 partially fused, hind wing radius posterior and median veins fused at their bases, male opercula not strongly S-shaped nor with deeply concave lateral margin, males without abdominal timbal covers, the male pygofer with undeveloped distal shoulder, pygofer upper lobes present, claspers large dominating abdominal segment 10 (except in the Katoini Moulds and Marshall, 2018 (in Marshall et al. 2018)) and not spined, uncus small, aedeagus without ventrobasal pocket and restrained by claspers, and apical theca lacking leaf-like lateral lobes ( Moulds 2005; Marshall et al. 2018).