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Issue: Vol. 5492 No. 4: 7 Aug. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-08-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5492.4.4
Page range: 545-562
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 2

The Spine Raptor—a new genus of predatory katydid (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae: Phlugidini) from the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest

Coleções Biológicas; Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá; Caixa Postal 38.69553-225; Tefé; Amazonas; Brasil
Coleção Entomológica Adalberto Antônio Varela-Freire; Departamento de Microbiologia e Parasitologia; Centro de Biociências; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte; Natal; Rio Grande do Norte; Brasil
Coleção Entomológica Adalberto Antônio Varela-Freire; Departamento de Microbiologia e Parasitologia; Centro de Biociências; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte; Natal; Rio Grande do Norte; Brasil; Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana; 44036-900; Feira de Santana; Bahia; Brazil
Orthoptera Phlugis Amazon Tefé lowland forest

Abstract

The Phlugidini tribe (Meconematinae: Tettigoniidae) currently comprises 10 genera and 64 species of small predatory katydids with Neotropical distribution. Herein, we describe the new genus Spinaraptor gen. nov. with five species included: Spinaraptor taja sp. nov. (type species), Spinaraptor celerinicta (Nickle, 2003) comb. nov., Spinaraptor ecuador (Gorochov, 2012) comb. nov., Spinaraptor gerana (Gorochov, 2015) comb. nov. and Spinaraptor nemoptera (Bolivar, 2012) comb. nov. (All transferred from Phlugis Stål, 1861). Pictorial keys to species in the genus, maps and natural history observations are provided.

 

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