Taphura Stal 1862

Taphura Stål, 1862 Type species. Cicada misella Stål, 1862 (Brazil). Remarks. Our records extend the distribution of the genus into Argentina. Species of the genus are recorded from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Panama, Peru, Surinam, and Venezuela (Metcalf 1963c; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Wolda & Ramos 1992; Sanborn 2007a; 2010a; 2011b; 2013).Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on pages 74-75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/495125