Cicadatrini Distant, 1905d

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the description of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records, Zootaxa 4880 (1), pp. 1-80 : 34

Tribe Cicadatrini Distant, 1905d

Cicadatraria Distant 1905d: 304 .

TYPE GENUS.— Cicadatra Kolenati 1857: 407 .

REMARKS.—The position of the tribe was reassigned recently to the Cicadettinae from the Cicadinae based on the presence of claspers and a molecular phylogeny ( Marshall et al. 2018) supporting the suggestion of Wang et al. (2017) with respect to the tribal position. The timbal covers found in species of Cicadatrini are unique in the Cicadettinae . Wang et al. (2017) describe the mediad enlargement of the subapical portion of the male opercula, several apical and subapical processes on the aedeagus, and a bifurcate apical aedeagus as diagnostic for the tribe.