Finotia Bonnet, 1884

Massa, Bruno, 2013, Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of species, Zootaxa 3700 (3), pp. 435-475 : 444

Finotia Bonnet, 1884 (type-species: Finotia spinicolllis Bonnet )

The genus Finotia is characterized by the absence of wings and Krauss's organ, and the tympanum partially covered. The presence/absence of the Krauss's organ is a character used to divide Pamphagidae into subfamilies (e.g., Storozhenko & Paik 2011); the loss of this ancestral character in the genera Finotia and Ocneridia should be considered apomorphic, and consequently it does not seem useful to distinguish subfamilies (cf. Massa 2012a).