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Plectronotus Morse 1900
Description
8. Genus Plectronotus Morse, 1900
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); 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) (Panama) (Fig. 36) (Grant, 1955a, 1962; Cigliano et al., 2021).
Notes
Published as part of 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, pp. 1-84 in Zootaxa 4946 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614393
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Tetrigidae
- Genus
- Plectronotus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Morse
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Plectronotus Morse, 1900 sec. Silva, Cadena-Castañeda & Pereira, 2021
References
- 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.
- 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)