The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-10-04
4493
1
1
69
journal article
29291
10.11646/zootaxa.4493.1.1
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Tribe
Selymbriini
Moulds and Marshall, 2018
(in
Marshall
et al.
2018
)
Selymbriini
Moulds and 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
of the Family
Tettigarctidae
Distant, 1905f
(
Marshall
et al.
2018
). The
Selymbriini
differ from the other
Tibicininae
by the supraantennal plate almost meeting the eye, the lack of an accessory auditory structure in the males, the undulated and not right-angled distally aedeagal basal plate, a very short theca that is laterally expanded into a broad flat distal end that is ornamented with triangular wings like species of the
Tettigarctidae
, and an exceedingly long uncus that is undivided and not retractable within the pygofer (
Marshall
et al.
2018
).