Scapteriscini Zeuner, 1939

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Scapteriscini Zeuner, 1939 stat. rev.

Diagnosis. Size small to big, first pair of tibiae armed with two moving dactyls, usually ventral dactyl shorter that dorsal dactyl, tympani slightly covered, fore trochanter elongated and armed with a claw in the ventro-distal margin. Tegmina of the male with the CuP directly connected to diagonal vein. Phallic complex: with a forked apex of the transversal sclerite, emarginated, inferior branch longer than the superior branch, Y-shaped. Ventro-apical branch more developed than the dorsal one, bmp tubular, amp pronounced and three/four times longer than it is wide. Ectophallus: Wide, expanded basal plate with wavy margins. Internal process of ectophallus spine-like, antero-apical process present.

Type genus: Scapteriscus Scudder, 1868 .