Choriphyllum Serville, 1838

Silva, Daniela Santos Martins, Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., Pereira, Marcelo Ribeiro, Domenico, Fernando Campos De & Sperber, Carlos Frankl, 2019, New tribes, overview and checklist of Neotropical Cladonotinae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Tetrigidae), Insecta Mundi 723 (723), pp. 1-38 : 5-6

Choriphyllum Serville, 1838

Type species. Choriphyllum sagrai Serville, 1838 .

Emended description. Head and compound eyes inserted below the pronotal disc; pronotum largely compressed; crest highly elevated, foliaceous, rounded-angulate or with general shape variable; anterior margin of pronotum over the head anteriorly rounded and posteriorly truncate or slightly concave ( C. plagiatum ), covering the abdomen; infrascapular area visible and broad; tegmina and wings absent; margins of fore and middle legs undulated; hind femur flattened laterally ( C. plagiatum and C. saussurei ) or robust; hind femur compressed and first article of hind tarsi longer than third.

Comments. Choriphyllum ( Cuba, Bahamas and Jamaica) and Phyllotettix ( Jamaica) are allied leaf-mimic tetrigids ( Heads et al. 2014) that share several morphological characteristics. For some time, species of Choriphyllum were considered as Phyllotettix and vice versa (see Hancock 1902). However, Hancock (1907) assigns this to a compilation error from his 1902 data. Choriphyllum is a genus with four species: Choriphyllum bahamensis Perez-Gelabert and Otte, 1999 from the Bahamas; Choriphyllum plagiatum Walker, 1871 from Jamaica; Choriphyllum sagrai Serville, 1838 and Choriphyllum saussurei Bolívar, 1887 from Cuba ( Cigliano et al. 2018).