LUZARINI HEBARD, 1928

Heads, Sam W., 2010, The first fossil spider cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Phalangopsinae): 20 million years of troglobiomorphosis or exaptation in the dark?, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158 (1), pp. 56-65 : 57-58

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TRIBE LUZARINI HEBARD, 1928

Luzarae Hebard, 1928: 1.

Luzarini Hebard, 1928: 1 .

Luzarinae Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993: 1 View in CoL .

Type genus: Luzara Walker, 1869 .

Remarks: Desutter-Grandcolas (1992: 95) defined the Luzarini based on the morphology of the male genitalia, stating that ‘chez les Luzarinae [sic], toute la partie médiane de l’épiphalle est régressée, notamment les lophi médians; d’autre part, les “bras épiphalliques” ainsi formés acquièrent une structure complex, avec généralement une ou deux zones de rupture ou d’articulation et des épines latérales’. The retrograde median region of the epiphallus is unique amongst Luzarini , and is likely to be apomorphic. The complex ‘bras épiphalliques’, or ‘epiphallic arms’, and their lateral lobes are highly variable: their morphology and spatial associations with the epiphallic parameres have proved very useful at lower taxonomic levels (e.g. Desutter-Grandcolas, 1992, 1993; Desutter-Grandcolas & Otte, 1997).

References

Desutter-Grandcolas L. 1992. Les Phalangopsidae de Guyane francaise (Orthopteres, Grylloidea) systematique, elements de phylogenie et de biologie. Bulletin de Museum National de Histoire Naturelle, Paris 14: 93 - 177.

Desutter-Grandcolas L. 1993. The cricket fauna of Chipanecan caves (Mexico), systematics, phylogeny and the evolution towards troglobitic life (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Phalangopsidae, Luzarinae). International Journal of Speleology 22: 1 - 82.

Desutter-Grandcolas L, Otte D. 1997. Revision of the West Indian genus Amphiacusta Saussure, 1874, with descriptions of twenty new species (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae). Annales de Societe Entomologique de France 33: 101 - 128.

Hebard M. 1928. The group Luzarae of the subfamily Phalangopsinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 54: 1 - 56, pls 1 - 13.

Walker F. 1869. Catalogue of the specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria and Supplement to the Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. Part 1. London: British Museum of Natural History.