Salomona Blanchard, 1853
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Salomona Blanchard, 1853 View in CoL
Type species: Acanthodis (Salomona) marmorata Blanchard, 1846
The genus Salomona was revised by Willemse (1959), who included in it 71 Indo-Malayan and Australasian species and subspecies. Additional 4 species were described by Willemse (1961, 1966), and 1 by Vickery and Kevan (1999). Katydids in this genus are large, robust insects, easily recognizable by the combination of a large, flat and wide frons, which is often strongly rugose or punctate, and often with well developed lateral carinae; a short fastigium of vertex, which is at least as wide as half of the scapus; a falcate or subfalcate ovipositor with parallel, smooth margins; and the male subgenital plate with long styli.
These insects have exceptionally well developed mandibular musculature and very sharp mandibles. The species observed in the wild in PNG ( S. godeffroyi and S. bispinosa ) were predaceous, actively hunting other katydids ( Hexacentrus sp. and Conocephalus spp.)
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Conocephalinae |
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Agraeciini |