Cicadidae Latreille, 1802

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Peru including the description of twenty-four new species, three new synonymies, and thirty-seven new records, Zootaxa 4785 (1), pp. 1-129 : 7

Family Cicadidae Latreille, 1802

REMARKS. All extant cicadas are members of the family Cicadidae except the two Australian species of Tettigarcta White, 1845 . The Cicadidae are distinguished from the Tettigarctidae Distant, 1905f by a pronotum that is smaller than the mesonotum, the presence of a distinctive cruciform elevation, fused fore wing anal veins 2 and 3, males generally possess timbal organs and an abdominal resonating chamber, tympana are present in both sexes, male sternite VII is shielded ventrally by the genitalia, and the male pygofer has basal lobes ( Moulds 2005).