Parapetasia Bolívar, 1884

Yetchom Fondjo, Jeanne Agrippine, Husemann, Martin, Nzoko Fiemapong, Armand Richard, Missoup, Alain Didier, Kenne, Martin, Tindo, Maurice, Hawlitschek, Oliver, Duressa, Tarekegn Fite, Xu, Sheng-Quan, Zhu, Wenhui & Hemp, Claudia, 2024, Integrative taxonomic revision of the grasshopper genera Parapetasia Bolívar, 1884, and Loveridgacris Rehn, 1954 (Orthoptera, Pyrgomorphidae), with description of a new species of Loveridgacris, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 71 (2), pp. 265-287 : 265-287

Genus Parapetasia Bolívar, 1884

Parapetasia Bolívar, 1884 (type species: Parapetasia femorata Bolívar, 1884 b , by monotypy).

Parapetasia (Parapetasia) Rehn, 1953

Parapetasia (Loveridgea) Rehn, 1953

Parapetasia (Loveridgacris) Rehn, 1954

Diagnosis of the genus Parapetasia Bolívar.

Fastigium of vertex triangular; tegmina vestigial, or if brachypterous, strongly reticulated; the eyes small, hemispherical, and prominent; posterior part of metazona raised, swollen, with median margin slightly or strongly emarginate; hind femora upper-median margin distinctly raised; male subgenital plate with slightly incised and parallel margins; epiphallic bridge narrow; appendices subparallel; ectophallus short; ventral process of cingulum broadly triangular.

Differential diagnoses for species of Parapetasia .

Parapetasia femorata can be easily distinguished from Parapetasia rammei by the following characters: tegmina dark brown, strongly reduced, vestigial, (yellow ‒ brown with brown veins, shortened or brachypterous, semilobed in P. rammei ); first and / or second abdominal segments with a lateral black band behind the insertion points of the femora (absent in P. rammei ); anterior projections of epiphallus large (small in P. rammei ); lateral plates subparallel (oblique or divergent in P. rammei ); lophi large, strongly curved (very small, slightly curved in P. rammei ); suprazygomal plate widely rounded (U-shapedin P. rammei ); apodemal lobes only slightly produced ventrally (strongly produced ventrally in P. rammei ); basal emargination of cingulum shallow (very deep in P. rammei ); endophallic apodemes short (strongly elongate or slender in P. rammei ).