Cubacophus Ruíz-Baliú & Otte, 1997

Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., Soto, Wolfang Andrés Rodríguez, Cárdenas, Andrea Del Pilar Floréz & Acevedo, Angélica, 2021, Studies on Neotropical crickets: The continental Otteiini taxa (Orthoptera Phalangopsidae), those cave crickets are not confined to the West Indies, Zootaxa 4981 (2), pp. 331-356 : 353

Cubacophus Ruíz-Baliú & Otte, 1997

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Diagnosis. Eyes not reduced (as wide as half of the scapus) and normally pigmented. Pronotum wider than long, with lower margins of lateral lobes moderately expanded to the sides.Apterous species. Legs exceptionally long and slender. Hind tibia always with 3 dorsal spurs on each side and two subapical spurs, all tarsi slender and elongated, first tarsomere unarmed dorsally and as long as a third of its respective tibiae. Abdominal tergites unspecialized and with glandular organs present on the third and fourth tergites, except the females. Male epiproctus longer than wide. Cerci slender and longer than the hind femur. Ovipositor slightly up-curved, three-fourths as long as the hind femur, with the apex dorsally rounded and bearing minute serrulations. Male genitalia: elongated; ectophallic fold thin, very long and flagellum-shaped; pseudepiphallic median lophi with a notch as deep as narrow, or very shallowly concave; pseudepiphallic paramere thin and hooklike apically; endophallic apodeme membranous; ectophallic apodeme joining in the first part of its length, then diverging (Fig. D-F).

Taxa included: Cubacophus caymani ( Otte & Perez-Gelabert, 2009) (type species), C. gibaraensis Ruíz-Baliú & Otte, 1997 , C. glaber (Bonfils, 1981) and C. velutinus (Bonfils, 1981) .