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
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-11-17
4880
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1
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4880.1.1
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1175-5326
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Tribe
Zammarini
Distant, 1905b
Zammararia
Distant 1905b: 380
.
Dazini
Kato 1932: 171
.
Plautillaria
Distant 1905h: 563
.
n. syn.
TYPE
GENUS.—
Zammara
Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 468
.
REMARKS.—These are the New World cicadas with ampliated lateral pronotal margins, hyaline fore wings and hind wings that are more or less spotted and possess a timbal cover that partially or entirely exposes the timbal. The distinguishing tribal characteristics are a combination of hind coxae with a large inner protuberance, timbal covers that are reduced dorsally or form a curled ridge along the posterior timbal cavity, a usually bifurcate basal pygofer lobe, an uncus that lacks a dorsal crest, and an aedeagus restrained by ventral apophyses (
Marshall
et al.
2018
;
Sanborn 2018a
). The genera were recently assigned to one of two subtribes with the synonymy of the
Dazini
and the shape and size of the timbal covers (
Sanborn 2018a
). A third subtribe is described below for the synonymized
Plautillini
rev. stat.