Redefinition of the cicada tribe Hemidictyini Distant, 1905, status of the tribe Iruanini Boulard, 1993 rev. stat., and the establishment of Hovanini n. tribe and Sapantangini n. tribe (Hemiptera: Cicadidae)
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Sanborn, Allen F.
Department of Biology, Barry University, 11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami Shores, FL 33161 - 6695, USA.
asanborn@barry. edu
Author
Marshall, David C.
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
david.marshall@uconn.edu
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Moulds, Maxwell S.
Australian Museum Research Institute, 1 William Street, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia.
msmoulds@gmail.com
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Puissant, Stéphane
Muséum - Jardin des Sciences, Mairie de Dijon, CS 73310, F- 21033 Dijon Cedex (France) and Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, case postale 30, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France).
spuissant@ville-dijon.fr
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Simon, Chris
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
chris.simon@uconn.edu
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-03-02
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The Classification of
Sapantanga
No genetic data are available for
Sapantanga
, but our tabulation of character states suggests that
Sapantanga
best matches the character profile for
Tibicininae
(
Tables 2
and
3
). The ventrobasal pocket unfortunately cannot be determined from examination of the
holotype
(the only known specimen), but otherwise no clear character conflicts were found.
Sapantanga
notably possesses the caudally bent uncus, the unfused hindwing veins RP and M, and the partially developed turned back rim on the margin of the timbal cavity. This assignment remains to be tested with genetic data.
Shared features of the pygofer, especially the caudally bent uncus, initially suggest that
Sapantanga
might be placed in the same tribe as
Hemidictya
. However, the bent uncus is not restricted to these two genera. Both our morphological analyses and the
Ruschel & Campos (2019)
tree suggest that
Sapantanga
possesses a highly divergent combination of character states (15 characters are listed as exceptions for
Sapantanga
in the diagnosis of the
Ruschel & Campos (2019)
Hemidictyini
, more than 45%). We propose that a new tribe is necessary to accommodate
Sapantanga
. It is frustrating that locality information is missing from the only known specimen (NHM, early 19
th
century).