Scapteriscus Scudder, 1868

Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., 2015, The phylogeny of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpoidea: Gryllotalpidae), Zootaxa 3985 (4), pp. 451-490 : 469

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scientific name	Scapteriscus Scudder, 1868
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Diagnosis. Big insects (greater than 40 mm.), body color mostly yellowish tan (fig. 13), trochanter blade triangular and reduced to apical tooth, fore tibia dactyls elongated and with acute apex (fig. 16). Male cerci almost as long as the pronotum. Phallic complex: Apical sclerite of epiphallus reduced, only 1.5 times longer than it is wide. Anteroapical process mostly membrane-like and shorter than the apical process.

Type species. Scapteriscus oxydactylus Perty, 1832 .

Commentaries: This genus comprises only two species, the biggest and most imposing of the family.

Species list

- S. oxydactylus Perty, 1832 .

- S. headsi Cadena-Castañeda, 2011 .

References

Cadena-Castaneda, O. J. (2011) Two new species of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae: Scapteriscinae) from the Colombian Amazon and Orinoquia rainforests. Zootaxa, 3126, 62 - 68.

Perty, J. A. M. (1832) Delectus Animalium Articulatorum quae in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII - MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae Regis Augustissimi, percato collegerunt Dr J. B. de Spix et Dr. C. F. Ph. de Martius, 2, 61 - 124.

Scudder, S. H. (1868) Remarks on classification of mole crickets. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 11, 384 - 387.