Taphurini Distant, 1905b

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 : 548

Tribe Taphurini Distant, 1905b

Taphuraria Distant 1905b: 25 .

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

Remarks. The tribe has been a repository for small species of uncertain classification historically as illustrated by the distribution of genera previously assigned to the Taphurini being reassigned recently to seven tribes in four subfamilies ( Marshall et al. 2018).

Diagnosis. Head wider than maximum width of the pronotum, subquadrate pronotum not distinctly narrowed anteriorly, pronotal lateral margins not developed or dilated, male opercula curve towards abdominal midline but remain widely separated medially, opercula small, narrow, not covering the tympanal cavity, abdomen length about as long as distance between apex of postclypeus and posterior cruciform elevation, timbals not extending ventral to wing bases, uncus absent but anal tube may possess lateral lobes, upper pygofer lobes small and unsclerotized, and basal lobes of pygofer large and ornamented, especially in Taphura ( Moulds 2005; Sanborn 2017a; Marshall et al. 2018).