Brasilodontus

Campos, Lucas Denadai De & De Mello, Francisco De A. G., 2014, Taxonomic studies on the Neotropical Landrevinae with description of new taxa (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Gryllidae), Zootaxa 3852 (2), pp. 151-178 : 152

Brasilodontus de Mello, 1992

Type species: B. mucuriensis de Mello, 1992. By original designation.

Recognition. Head wider than long; eyes dark, large, somewhat prominent, without unpigmented area on superofrontal area; maxillary palpi with the fifth joint truncated; pronotum with anterior and posterior margins nearly straight, covered of bristles; male fore wings functional for singing, with stridulum and specialized venation, extending beyond the hind margin of the first abdominal tergite (except in B. riodocensis , in which the wing is shorter, and in B. apterus , n. sp.); male hind wings absent; metanotal gland absent; auditory tympana never present on the outer face of fore tibia; tibia I with three apical spurs; tibia II with three apical spurs; tibia III with 4/4 dorsal spurs and 3/3 apical ones, the median the longest on both faces; supra-anal plate short; subgenital plate pilose, slightly wider than long; phallic complex very long, not tubular, main lobes of pseudepiphallus deeply invaginated, becoming bifid, each side bearing a fringe of bristles towards the apex, endophallic sclerite elongate but small; female fore wings absent; copulatory papilla long and thin (broader and flattened in B. itamarajuensis , n. sp. and B. portosegurensis , n. sp.); ovipositor depressed.