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Encentra Redtenbacher 1892

Description

Encentra Redtenbacher, 1892

Type species. Encentra longipes Redtenbacher, 1982 by monotypy. Redtenbacher, 1892: 204; Kirby, 1906: 360; Bruner, 1915: 335.

Diagnosis. Slender katydids, apterous, with greatly elongated legs. Differing from Tabaria by the pronotal spines finishing in an acute tip. The four lateral spines, two on each side of meso- and metazona arranged in a diagonal line one to another. Hind femur with basal portion distinctly expanded and tapering toward the tip. Meso- and metasternum with one median spine.

Notes

Published as part of Rengifo, Juliana Chamorro, 2009, Redescription of two species of the genera Encentra and Tabaria (Tettigoniidae: Mecopodinae) of Colombia, pp. 46-52 in Zootaxa 2003 on page 47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.185617

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Phaneropteridae
Genus
Encentra
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Redtenbacher
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Encentra Redtenbacher, 1892 sec. Rengifo, 2009

References

  • Redtenbacher, J. (1892) Monographische Uebersicht der Mecopodiden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wie n. 42, 183 - 224.
  • Bruner, L. (1915) Notes on tropical American Tettigonoidea. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 9 (3), 284 - 404.