Tibicininae Distant, 1905d

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Peru including the description of twenty-four new species, three new synonymies, and thirty-seven new records, Zootaxa 4785 (1), pp. 1-129 : 118

Subfamily Tibicininae Distant, 1905d

REMARKS. Species of Tibicininae can be distinguished by the metanotum being entirely concealed on dorsal midline, unfused fore wing cubitus posterior and anal vein 1 (except in the Platypediini Kato, 1932 ), unfused bases of the hind wing radius posterior and median veins, distinctively S-shaped male opercula with deeply concave lateral margin not reaching posterior margin of tympanal cavities, males lack abdominal timbal covers or a partially recurved rim, male pygofer with undeveloped distal shoulder, pygofer upper lobes absent (present only in some Selymbriini Moulds and Marshall, 2018 (in Marshall et al. 2018)), very long uncus not retractable within pygofer, claspers absent, aedeagus with ventrobasal pocket, restrained by tubular encapsulation below uncus, and apical theca with a pair of leaf-like lateral lobes ( Marshall et al. 2018).