Cicadettinae Buckton, 1890

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 : 47

Subfamily Cicadettinae Buckton, 1890

REMARKS. Members of the Cicadettinae are distinguished by a metanotum partially visible on dorsal midline, partially fused fore wing cubitus posterior and anal vein 1, hind wing radius posterior and median veins fused at their bases, male opercula not strongly S-shaped nor with a deeply concave lateral margin, males that lack abdominal timbal covers (except the Cicadatrini Distant, 1905d ), male pygofer with undeveloped distal shoulder, pygofer upper lobes present, large not spined claspers dominating abdominal segment 10 (except in the Katoini Moulds and Marshall, 2018 (in Marshall et al. 2018)), uncus small if present, aedeagus lacking a ventrobasal pocket and restrained by claspers, and apical theca lacking leaf-like lateral lobes ( Moulds 2005; Marshall et al. 2018).