Selymbriini Moulds & Marshall, 2018

Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, The cicada genus Selymbria Stål, 1861 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Tibicininae: Selymbrini): redescription including ten new species and a key to the genus, Zootaxa 4614 (3), pp. 401-448 : 403

Tribe Selymbriini Moulds & Marshall, 2018 (in Marshall et al. 2018)

Selymbriini Moulds & Marshall 2018 (in Marshall et al. 2018): 53.

TYPE GENUS. Selymbria Stål 1861: 615 .

REMARKS. The genus Selymbria was recently moved from the Taphurini to this new monogeneric tribe ( Marshall et al. 2018). The basal position of the genus in the multi-gene tree suggests it is an ancient lineage and it is the only genus of Cicadidae to show similarity in the aedeagus structure to the species of Tettigarcta White, 1845 of the Family Tettigarctidae Distant, 1905d ( Marshall et al. 2018). The Selymbriini differ from the other Tibicininae by the supra-antennal plate almost meeting the eye, the lack of an accessory auditory structure in the males, the male opercula generally covering the tympanal cavity completely, the distal aedeagal basal plate is undulated rather than right-angled, the very short theca is laterally expanded into a broad, flat distal end ornamented with triangular wings similar to species of the Tettigarctidae , pygofer upper lobes usually present, and an exceedingly long, undivided uncus that is not retractable within the pygofer ( Marshall et al. 2018).

GENERA INCLUDED. The tribe is represented currently only by the genus Selymbria Stål, 1861 .