Calyria Stål, 1862

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Trinidad and Tobago including the description of three new species and seven new records, with new records for several additional Caribbean Islands, Zootaxa 4838 (4), pp. 535-565 : 545

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.4.7
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4477133
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scientific name	Calyria Stål, 1862
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Genus Calyria Stål, 1862 View in CoL View at ENA new record

Cicada (Calyria) Stål 1862: 22 View in CoL .

Type species. Cicada (Calyria) blanda Stål 1862: 22 View in CoL . (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Remarks. Species of Calyria possess five hind wing apical cells, ocelli well separated from base of head, and an indistinct fore wing postcostal area ( Distant 1906). Additionally, the flattened ventrolateral postclypeus without an obvious apical extension and parallel lateral surfaces of the pronotum for most of its length are also diagnostic ( Sanborn 2020a, e).

Distribution. Species of the genus were reported previously from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963b; Maes et al. 2012; Sanborn 2013; 2014; 2018b; 2019a; 2020a, b, c, d; Sanborn & Maes 2012; Sanborn & Heath 2014). The range was recently expanded to include Ecuador ( Sanborn 2020e).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Cicadidae