Pachypsaltria Stål, 1861

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 : 34-35

Genus Pachypsaltria Stål, 1861

Pachypsaltria Stål 1861: 616 .

TYPE SPECIES.— Cicada cintomaculata Stål 1854: 243 . ( Venezuela)

REMARKS.—Species of the genus are robust cicadas with the length of the abdomen shorter than the length of the apex of the head to the posterior cruciform elevation, the fore wings are infuscated along most or all of the veins, and the body is covered with long, thick pile ( Stål 1861; Torres 1960).

DISTRIBUTION.—The genus is restricted primarily to the cordillera of South America with species being reported

from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963b; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2013; 2019b; 2020b; Sanborn & Heath 2014).