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Tafalisca Walker 1869

  • 1. Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, rua do Matão, travessa 14, n. 101, CEP: 05508 - 090, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP (Brazil) lcdenadai @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
  • 2. Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)
  • 3. Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, rua do Matão, travessa 14, n. 101, CEP: 05508 - 090, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP (Brazil)

Description

Genus Tafalisca Walker, 1869

TYPE SPECIES. — Tafalisca lurida Walker, 1869.

DIAGNOSIS. — FWs with only parallel and longitudinal veins, not specialized for producing sounds (sometimes bearing only a stridulatory file), absence of tympanum, small protuberances in the dorsal face of fore and mid tibias (not present in all species). Male genitalia: pseudepiphallic sclerite divided in median (bilobate) and lateral lobes, apex of R curved inwards, EctF somewhat membranous, EndSc short, endophallic apodeme very short (sometimes almost no discernible).

Notes

Published as part of Campos, Lucas Denadai de, Souza-Dias, Pedro G. B. & Nihei, Silvio Shigueo, 2020, New Brazilian Tafaliscina increase the diversity of this Neotropical cricket clade (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae: Paroecanthini), pp. 331-353 in Zoosystema 42 (19) on page 343, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a19, http://zenodo.org/record/3937633

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Haglotettigoniidae
Genus
Tafalisca
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Tafalisca Walker, 1869 sec. Campos, Souza-Dias & Nihei, 2020