Plectronotus Morse, 1900

Silva, Daniela Santos Martins, Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J. & Pereira, Marcelo Ribeiro, 2021, Batrachideinae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Tetrigidae): an overview of the most diverse tetrigids of the Neotropical region, Zootaxa 4946 (1), pp. 1-84 : 20

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scientific name	Plectronotus Morse, 1900
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8. Genus Plectronotus Morse, 1900 View in CoL

Plectonotus is a Central America genus, characterized by body robust; first portion of median carina (lateral view) undulated, with a small pronounced pre-humeral ‘hump’ ( Fig. 26 View FIGURE 26 ); antennae with 20 segments; anterior margin of the pronotum (lateral and dorsal view) hook-like; ventral sinus absence; tegminal sinus presence only in P. scaber ; tegmina exposed or cryptic; middle femur apical spine absent and brachypronotal specimens ( Grant, 1955a, 1962). The genus consists of two species: Plectronotus scaber Morse, 1900 ( Costa Rica) and Plectronotus excavatus Grant, 1955 ( Fig. 26 View FIGURE 26 ) ( Panama) ( Fig. 36 View FIGURE 36 ) ( Grant, 1955a, 1962; Cigliano et al., 2021).

References

Cigliano, M. M., Braun, H., Eades, D. C. & Otte, D. (2021) Orthoptera Species File. Version 5.0 / 5.0. Available from: http: // Orthoptera. SpeciesFile. org (accessed 2 January 2020)

Grant, H. J. (1955 a) Systematics of the Neotropical Batrachideine Genera Plectronotus, Halmatettix and Cranotettix gen. nov. (Orthoptera; Acridoidea; Tetrigidae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 107, 57 - 74.

Grant, H. J. (1962) A revision of the subfamily Batrachideinae (Orthoptera; Tetrigidae). PhD Thesis, University of Colorado Library, University of Colorado, Colorado, 208 pp.

Figures

FIGURE 26. Plectronotus excavatus Grant, 1955 (A) holotype and (B) allotypes left lateral view and labels.Arrows highlighting the first portion of median carinae undulated, with a small pronounced pre-humeral ‘hump’. Photo of type: University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology (UMMZ Ann Arbor), photo modificated from Holger Braun.