Vestria, Stal, 1874

Piotr Naskrecki, 2000, Katydids of Costa Rica / Vol. 1, Systematics and bioacoustics of the cone-head katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae sensu lato)., Philadelphia, PA: The Orthopterists Society at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, : 105

VESTRIA Stål, 1874

1874 Stål, Recens. Orth. 2: 97, 105; type species: Locusta

repanda Walker, 1869

1999 Naskrecki and Otte, Illustr. Cat. Orthop. I (CD ROM) >>full references

Note: The genus Vestria is in need of a critical taxonomic revision, which unfortunately is beyond the scope of this work. Currently with four described (including Eriolus nigrifrons Karny , transferred to Vestria in this work) and three yet unnamed species ( Nickle et al. 1996), it may in fact represent more than just one monophyletic lineage. Vestria punctata , the only Central American member of the genus, bears little resemblance to its South American counterparts and seems to be more closely related to species traditionally placed in the genus Moncheca . Therefore, instead of providing a description of the entire genus, I will limit it to the description of V. punctata , hoping that a future revision will help clarify its phylogenetic position.