Plautilla Stål, 1865

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 : 16

Genus Plautilla Stål, 1865

Plautilla Stål 1865: 155 .

TYPE SPECIES.— Plautilla stalagmoptera Stål 1865: 155 . ( Quito , Ecuador)

REMARKS.—The mesonotal stridulatory apparatus, mesonotal timbal covers, large, convex, inflated male opercula that extend beyond the lateral margins of the abdomen, the short, broad fore wings, the dilated lateral pronotal margins, the head being half the width of the mesonotum, the membranous male abdominal sternites III–VI and recurved epipleurites are diagnostic structures for the genus ( Distant 1905h; Moulds 2005).

DISTRIBUTION.—Species of the genus are currently known from Colombia and Ecuador with greatest diversity of species found in Ecuador ( Metcalf 1963c; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2013).