Phyllotettix Hancock, 1902

Silva, Daniela Santos Martins, Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., Pereira, Marcelo Ribeiro, Domenico, Fernando Campos De & Sperber, Carlos Frankl, 2019, New tribes, overview and checklist of Neotropical Cladonotinae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Tetrigidae), Insecta Mundi 723 (723), pp. 1-38 : 9

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scientific name	Phyllotettix Hancock, 1902
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Phyllotettix Hancock, 1902 View in CoL

Type species. Phyllotettix compressus ( Thunberg, 1815) View in CoL .

Description. Body strongly compressed with surface finely rugose; head and compound eyes inserted below pronotum disc; antennal groove situated below margin of compound eyes; facial carinae placed between antennal groove; scutellum distinctly rounded and wider. Pronotum with radiating veins; crest highly elevated, with edge undulated or almost straight; anterior margin of pronotum elevated overhead, covering dorsally the head with a truncated projection or almost rounded extending down almost to the vertex portion; margin posterior of pronotum not truncated; infrascapular area visible and broad. Tegmina and wings absent. Fore femur undulated, middle femur elongated; hind femur robust, with dorsal margin excavated on distal portion ( Fig. 6 View Figure 6 , 7 View Figure 7 ).

Comments. Phyllotettix has three species: P. compressus ( Thunberg, 1815) , P. foliatus ( Hancock, 1902) and P. rhombeus ( Felton, 1765) . P. foliatus is the species described more recently. Otte (1978) listed the holotype housed at the ANSP, but we were not able to locate this specimen.

References

Felton, S. 1765. An account of a singular species of wasp and locust. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 54: 53 - 56.

Hancock, J. L. 1902. Tettigidae of North America. R. R. Donnelly and Sons; Chicago. 188 p.

Otte, D. 1978. The primary types of Orthoptera (Saltatoria, Mantodea, Phasmatodea and Blattodea) at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 130: 26 - 87.

Thunberg, C. P. 1815. Acrydii descriptio. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis 7: 157 - 162.