Taphurini Distant, 1905b

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 : 51

Tribe Taphurini Distant, 1905b

Taphuraria Distant 1905b: 25 .

TYPE GENUS. Cicada (Taphura) Stål 1862: 20 .

Remarks. The Taphurini are characterized by the head being wider than the maximum width of the pronotum, subquadrate pronotum that is not distinctly narrowed anteriorly, pronotal lateral margins are not developed or dilated, the male opercula curve towards the abdominal midline but remain widely separated and are small, narrow, and do not cover the tympanal cavity, the abdomen is about as long as the distance between the apex of the postclypeus and the posterior of the cruciform elevation, timbals do not extend below wing bases, uncus is absent but anal tube may possess lateral lobes, the upper pygofer lobe small and unsclerotized, and the basal lobes of pygofer large and ornamented, especially in Taphura ( Moulds 2005; Sanborn 2017a; Marshall et al. 2018).