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Scapteriscus Scudder 1868
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Description
Scapteriscus Scudder, 1868
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.
Notes
Published as part of Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., 2015, The phylogeny of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpoidea: Gryllotalpidae), pp. 451-490 in Zootaxa 3985 (4) on page 469, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3985.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234476
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lathiceridae
- Genus
- Scapteriscus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Scudder
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scapteriscus Scudder, 1868 sec. Cadena-Castañeda, 2015
References
- Scudder, S. H. (1868) Remarks on classification of mole crickets. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 11, 384 - 387.
- 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.
- 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.