Calyria Stål, 1862 a

Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records, Zootaxa 4655 (1), pp. 1-104 : 48

Genus Calyria Stål, 1862 a

Cicada (Calyria) Stål 1862 a: 22 .

TYPE SPECIES. Cicada (Calyria) blanda Stål 1862 a: 22 . (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

REMARKS. Species of Calyria are characterized by five apical cells in the hind wings, ocelli that are well separated from the base of the head, and the postcostal area of the fore wing is not distinct ( Distant 1906a). The ventrolateral postclypeus is flattened without an obvious extension at the apex and the pronotum has parallel lateral surfaces for most of its length.

DISTRIBUTION. Species of the genus have been reported from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963c; Maes et al. 2012; Sanborn 2013; 2014a; 2018c; Sanborn & Maes 2012; Sanborn & Heath 2014).