Phelene Bolívar, 1906

Kasalo, Niko, Husemann, Martin, van de Kamp, Thomas & Skejo, Josip, 2024, Description of Phelene reinschmidti from Ecuador with notes on the subfamily Lophotettiginae (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae), Evolutionary Systematics 8 (1), pp. 119-125 : 119-125

Genus Phelene Bolívar, 1906

Nephele Bolívar, 1887: 252. (junior homonym of Nephele Hübner, 1819);

Phelene Bolívar, 1906: 392. (replacement name); Kirby 1910: 23. (catalogued); Günther, 1938: 307. (diagnosis); Yin et al. 1996: 899. (catalogued); Cadena-Castañeda and Cardona 2015: 477. (noted as a synonym of Chiriquia); Silva et al. 2019 (mentioned); Cadena-Castañeda et al. 2021: 357. (revision);

Gladiotettix Hancock, 1907: 40. (diagnosis in English, obsolete replacement name); Bruner 1910: 101. (Hancock’s descriptions of the species which was later assigned to Lophotettix).

Differential diagnosis.

Antennal segments flattened, but oval (apical segments triangular in Lophotettix ). Low pronotal crest (medium to tall in Lophotettix ). Anterior and middle femora smooth (moderately tuberculated in Lophotettix ).

Type species.

Phelene turgida ( Bolívar, 1887)

Composition and distribution.

P. maroon Cadena-Castañeda & Tumbrinck, 2021 , P. turgida ( Bolívar, 1887), P. reinschmidti sp. nov. The genus seems to be restricted to the northern half of South America.

Note.

We identified two female specimens of P. turgida from Peru at the Zoologische Staatssammlung München ( ZSM), which we present in Fig. 1 to aid in comparison with the new species. Additionally, we identified two male specimens of this species at the ZSM with the following label data: Peru, Prov. Huanuco / b. Yuyapichis, Stat. Panguana / 9 ° 37 ' S, 74 ° 36 ' W Lux Wald / Baum liegend, 20.9. – 7. 10. 2013 / leg. Burmeister.

Figures

Figure 1. Phelene turgida specimens deposited in ZSM. A. The locality where the specimens were collected; B. Label, same for both specimens; C. Two female specimens depicted in lateral, frontal, and dorsal views. All photos are to the same scale except the frontal views. Scale bar: 1 mm.