Cicadidae Latreille, 1802

Sanborn, Allen F., 2018, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records, Zootaxa 4493 (1), pp. 1-69 : 6

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4493.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4480528

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scientific name

Cicadidae Latreille, 1802
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Family Cicadidae Latreille, 1802 View in CoL View at ENA

Remarks. All extant cicadas except the two Australian species of Tettigarcta White, 1845 are members of the family Cicadidae . Cicadidae are distinguished by the pronotum being smaller than the mesonotum, a distinctive cruciform elevation is present, fused fore wing anal veins 2 and 3, males generally with timbal organs and abdominal resonating chamber, tympana present in both sexes, male sternite VII shielded ventrally by the genitalia, and the male pygofer has basal lobes ( Moulds 2005).

Latreille, P. A. (1802) Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere des crustaces et des insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite a l'histoire naturelle generale et particuliere, composee par Leclerc de Buffon, et redigee par C. S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs societes savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome Troisieme. F. Dufast, Paris, 467 pp. [pp. i - xii + 13 - 467]

Moulds, M. S. (2005) An appraisal of the higher classification of cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea) with special reference to the Australian fauna. Records of the Australian Museum, 57, 375 - 446. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.57.2005.1447

White, A. (1845) Appendix (D.) Description and figures of four new species of Australian insects. In: Eyre, E. J. (Ed.), Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia and overland from Adelaide to King George Sound, in the years 1840 - 1; sent by the colonists of South Australia, with the sanction and support of the government: including an account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans. T. and W. Boone, London, pp. 432 - 434, pl. 4.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadidae