Paracilacris, Chopard, 1955

Naskrecki, Piotr, Bazelet, Corinna S. & Spearman, Lauren A., 2008, New species of flightless katydids from South Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), Zootaxa 1933 (1), pp. 19-32 : 24-25

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1933.1.3

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Paracilacris
status

 

Key to known species of Paracilacris View in CoL

1. Titillator as in Fig 3B View FIGURE 3 , covered with numerous hooks; female subgenital plate with a pair of pointed, upcurved lobes ( Figs. 2M, N View FIGURE 2 ); pronotum without a distinct dark band on the lateral lobe ( Fig. 2H View FIGURE 2 )........... ....................................................................................................................................... P. periclitatus View in CoL n. sp.

- Titillator as in Fig. 3A View FIGURE 3 , anchor-shaped; female subgenital plate without or with pointed lobes, but lobes never curved up on the sides of the ovipositor; pronotum with a distinct dark band on the lateral lobe ( Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 )...............................................................................................................................................................2

2. Male cercus tapered apically, without a distended lobe; ovipositor nearly straight ( Fig. 2P View FIGURE 2 ), female sub- genital plate with a pair of pointed lobes ( Fig. 2O View FIGURE 2 ) ....................................................... P. lateralis Chopard View in CoL

- Male cercus with a large, subapical lobe ( Fig. 2B View FIGURE 2 ); ovipositor strongly curved ( Fig. 2G View FIGURE 2 ); female subgenital plate without pointed lobes ( Fig. 2F View FIGURE 2 ) .............................................................................. P. mordax View in CoL n. sp.

Gallery Image

FIGURE 2. Paracilacris mordax. A. male head and pronotum, lateral view; B. apex of male abdomen, dorsal view; C. male subgenital plate; D. male left tegmen; E. stridulatory file; F. female subgenital plate; G. ovipositor; P. periclitatus. H. male head and pronotum, lateral view; I. apex of male abdomen, dorsal view; J. male subgenital plate; K. male left tegmen; L. stridulatory file; M. female subgenital plate; N. ovipositor; P. lateralis. O. female subgenital plate; P. ovipositor.

Gallery Image

FIGURE 3. Paracilacris mordax. A. titillator, dorsal view; P. periclitatus. B. titillator, dorsal view; Amyttacta farrelli. C. male, lateral view; D. female devouring the spermatophylax; Paracilacris periclitatus. E. male, dorso-lateral view (green form); F. female, dorso-lateral view (brown form).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tettigoniidae