The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the description of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records Author Sanborn, Allen F. 0000-0001-5729-7106 Department of Biology, Barry University, 11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami Shores, FL 33161 – 6695, USA asanborn@barry.edu text Zootaxa 2020 2020-11-17 4880 1 1 80 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4880.1.1 50f2ef69-fec5-45e5-8005-623e2cb991dc 1175-5326 4425522 33BE91BC-DC0F-4CBB-85AB-CA7BF1891C0C Subfamily Cicadettinae Buckton, 1890 REMARKS.—Species of the Cicadettinae are distinguished by possessing a metanotum that is partially visible on the dorsal midline, the partial fusion of fore wing cubitus posterior and anal vein 1, the fused bases of the hind wing radius posterior and median veins, male opercula that are not strongly S-shaped nor with a deeply concave lateral margin, males without abdominal timbal covers, an undeveloped distal shoulder of the male pygofer, the presence of pygofer upper lobes, large claspers that dominate abdominal segment 10 and lack spines, a small uncus if present, an aedeagus that lacks a ventrobasal pocket and is restrained by claspers, and the absence of leaf-like lateral lobes on the apical theca ( Moulds 2005 ; Marshall et al. 2018 ).