Scapteriscus Scudder, 1868

Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., 2015, The phylogeny of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpoidea: Gryllotalpidae), Zootaxa 3985 (4), pp. 451-490 : 469

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3985.4.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6119117

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scientific name

Scapteriscus Scudder, 1868
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Scapteriscus Scudder, 1868

Diagnosis. Big insects (greater than 40 mm.), body color mostly yellowish tan (fig. 13), trochanter blade triangular and reduced to apical tooth, fore tibia dactyls elongated and with acute apex (fig. 16). Male cerci almost as long as the pronotum. Phallic complex: Apical sclerite of epiphallus reduced, only 1.5 times longer than it is wide. Anteroapical process mostly membrane-like and shorter than the apical process.

Type species. Scapteriscus oxydactylus Perty, 1832 .

Commentaries: This genus comprises only two species, the biggest and most imposing of the family.

Species list

- S. oxydactylus Perty, 1832 .

- S. headsi Cadena-Castañeda, 2011 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Lathiceridae

Loc

Scapteriscus Scudder, 1868

Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J. 2015
2015
Loc

S. headsi Cadena-Castañeda, 2011

Cadena-Castaneda 2011
2011
Loc

S. oxydactylus

Perty 1832
1832
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