<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Oxyprora gladiatrix Piza 1980, comb. nov.</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"/> </head> <body> <h1> <i>Oxyprora gladiatrix</i> (Piza, 1980) comb. nov.</h1> <p> <i>Liliella gladiatrix</i> Piza, 1980</p> <p> <i>Liliella</i> Piza, 1980 <b>syn. nov.</b> of <i>Oxyprora</i> Stål, 1873</p> <p>The description of the genus <i>Liliella</i> does not mention the three very similar genera <i>Oxyprora</i> Stål, 1873, <i>Phoxacris</i> Karny, 1907, and <i>Sphodrophoxus</i> Hebard, 1924. They share a conspicuous medially broadened ovipositor with Piza’s female specimen (which must have inspired him to the species’s name). It seems not clear if <i>Sphodrophoxus jivarus</i> from Ecuador is really different from <i>Phoxacris melanosticta</i> from Bolivia (both genera are monospecific). There are slight differences in the shape of the fastigium, and in <i>Sphodrophoxus</i> it is separated from the frons, as in <i>Oxyprora</i> (Bruner 1915, Hebard 1924). Such a separation is also mentioned in the description of <i>Liliella</i>. <i>Sphodrophoxus jivarus</i> is fairly small (body length 27.5 mm) and is distinguished from the more robust <i>Oxyprora</i> species by a very slender, dorsally smooth, and weakly convex fastigium. In Piza’s species the fastigium is dorsally flat, if not very weakly concave, and has a few small tubercles. And it does not match the other scarcely diagnostic characters of <i>Sphodrophoxus</i>. So we move it under <i>Oxyprora</i>. This genus contains seven other species, four also from Brazil, which display a certain diversity in habitus, and especially shape of fastigium and ovipositor (of five species there are photographs of type specimens in OSF). <i>Oxyprora gladiatrix</i> might be identical with one of the two species without available images: according to Redtenbacher’s (1891) key its basally hardly narrowed fastigium is different from <i>O. acuminata</i>, but according to Kirby (1906) he possibly confused this species with <i>O. acanthoceras</i>.</p> </body> </html>