Cocconotini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895

Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., Prieto-Cristancho, Daniel S., Romero-Betancourt, Laura M., Braun, Holger & García, Alexander García, 2020, Studies in Neotropical Pseudophyllinae: A new genus of Cocconotini from the ColombianAndes and new subfamily assignment of the Dominican genus Anacaona (Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae: Cocconotini), Zootaxa 4885 (1), pp. 133-138 : 134

Tribe Cocconotini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1895

Comments. Here we describe Acuscercus n. gen. a new genus from the midlands of the Colombian Andes, raising the number of Cocconotini genera recorded for the country to 16, comprising 50 species. According to Beier, 1960, this new genus matches the diagnosis of Cocconontini, although it also presents some characters mentioned in the diagnosis of Eucocconotini ( Beier, 1960; Braun, 2011): antennal scapes spineless; mid-coxae with two ventral tubercles, one on the base and the other at the apex; only the lobes of the metasternum erect and pointed. These intermediate characters, which are present or at least partially present in the Cocconotini and Eucocconotini genera, suggest that the tribal relationships in Pseudophyllinae should be evaluated, since the tribal limits are sometimes diffuse (Cadena-Castañeda & Monzón, 2014; Cadena-Castañeda in prep.). According to the most recent molecular phylogeny of Tettigoniidae , the tribe Cocconotini is not monophyletic ( Mugleston et al., 2018).