Phaneroptera quinquesignata Piza, 1977

Braun, Holger, 2024, Nomenclatural notes on a variety of Orthoptera, Zootaxa 5453 (1), pp. 121-126 : 122

Phaneroptera quinquesignata Piza, 1977

It seemed doubtful that this species from eastern Brazil would really belong to the Old World genus Phaneroptera (there are no photographs of the type specimens available). Surprisingly it does. There are almost 70 observations on iNaturalist, and according to the very short ovipositor of females it cannot be a member of the neotropical Anaulacomerina. With the dark spots on the base of the tegmina of males it is very simliar and possibly identical to Ph. nana . That species has been introduced in North America, where it now occurs along the West Coast and the very northeast of the United States (see observations on iNaturalist and comments on first records in Walker & Yawn 2024). Maybe the Brazilian colleagues could collect a specimen and clarify the identity of this species.

Note: There are two more species described in the genus Phaneroptera from the southeast of Brazil, Ph. albivenis Piza, 1977 and Ph. exigua Piza 1977 , whose identity needs to be clarified too (no photographs of type specimens available).