Taphurini Distant, 1905

SANBORN, ALLEN F, 2020, Eight new species and three new records of Neotropical cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from Venezuela, Journal of Insect Biodiversity 16 (1), pp. 6-37 : 23

Tribe Taphurini Distant, 1905

Taphuraria Distant 1905c: 25 .

Type genus. Cicada (Taphura) Stål 1862: 20 .

Remarks. Members of the Taphurini possess a head that is wider than the maximum width of the pronotum, a subquadrate pronotum that is not distinctly narrowed anteriorly, pronotal lateral margins that are not developed or dilated, male opercula that are small, narrow, curve towards the abdominal midline but remain widely separated and do not cover the tympanal cavity, an abdomen that is about as long as the distance between the apex of the postclypeus and the posterior of the cruciform elevation, timbals that do not extend below wing bases, the uncus is absent but the anal tube may possess lateral lobes, upper pygofer lobe that are small and unsclerotized, and basal lobes of the pygofer that are large and ornamented, especially in Taphura ( Moulds 2005; Sanborn 2017a; Marshall et al. 2018). Historically the Taphurini has been a repository for small species with uncertain classification, a point illustrated by the fact that genera previously assigned to the Taphurini were recently distributed to seven tribes in four subfamilies ( Marshall et al. 2018).