Periphloea Redtenbacher, 1906

Heleodoro, Raphael Aquino, Queiroz, Larissa Lima De & Rafael, José Albertino, 2021, Two new species of Periphloea Redtenbacher, 1906 (Insecta: Phasmatodea: Pseudophasmatidae) from the Brazilian Amazon Basin, Zootaxa 5047 (5), pp. 520-530 : 521

Periphloea Redtenbacher, 1906

The two new species described below fit the diagnosis of Periphloea , thus being included in this genus: presence of conspicuous projections on head and pronotum, tegmina oval with a conspicuous keel ( Redtenbacher 1906) and cercus laterally compressed ( Conle et al. 2020). Species distribution in Figure 7 .

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FIGURE 7. Map of geographical records of Periphloea species. Black dot: Periphloea corticina; purple dot: Periphloea olivacea; red dot: Periphloea santara; dark-blue dot: Periphloea amazonica sp. nov.; green dot: Periphloea paraensis sp. nov.