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Taphurini Distant 1905

Description

Tribe Taphurini Distant, 1905b

Taphuraria Distant 1905b: 25.

TYPE GENUS. Cicada (Taphura) Stål 1862: 20.

REMARKS. The Taphurini are characterized by the head being wider than the maximum width of the pronotum, subquadrate pronotum that is not distinctly narrowed anteriorly, pronotal lateral margins are not developed or dilated, the male opercula curve towards the abdominal midline but remain widely separated and are small, narrow, and do not cover the tympanal cavity, the abdomen is about as long as the distance between the apex of the postclypeus and the posterior of the cruciform elevation, timbals do not extend below wing bases, uncus is absent but anal tube may possess lateral lobes, the upper pygofer lobe small and unsclerotized, and the basal lobes of pygofer large and ornamented, especially in Taphura (Moulds 2005; Sanborn 2017a; Marshall et al. 2018).

Notes

Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records, pp. 1-104 in Zootaxa 4655 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4655.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3365845

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cicadidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Distant
Taxon rank
tribe
Taxonomic concept label
Taphurini Distant, 1905 sec. Sanborn, 2019

References

  • Distant, W. L. (1905 b) Rhynchotal notes XXXI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, 15, 379 - 387. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 0374548050944306 4
  • Stal, C. (1862) Bidrag till Rio Janeiro-traktens Hemipter-fauna. II. Handlingar. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien. Stockholm, 3, 1 - 75.
  • Moulds, M. S. (2005) An appraisal of the higher classification of cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea) with special reference to the Australian fauna. Records of the Australian Museum, 57, 375 - 446. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.57.2005.144 7
  • Sanborn, A. F. (2017 a) Generic redescription, seven new species and a key to the Taphura Stal, 1862 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae: Taphurini). Zootaxa, 4324 (3), 451 - 481. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4324.3. 3
  • Marshall, D. C., Moulds, M. S., Hill, K. B. R., Price, B. W., Wade, E. J., Owen, C. J., Goemans, G., Marathe, K., Sarkar, V., Cooley, J. R., Sanborn, A. F., Kunte, K., Villet, M. H. & Simon, C. (2018) A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily level classification. Zootaxa, 4424 (1), 1 - 64. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4424.1. 1