Scaria Bolívar, 1887

Silva, Daniela Santos Martins, Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J. & Pereira, Marcelo Ribeiro, 2021, Batrachideinae (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Tetrigidae): an overview of the most diverse tetrigids of the Neotropical region, Zootaxa 4946 (1), pp. 1-84 : 36

11. Genus Scaria Bolívar, 1887

This genus was recently studied by Cadena-Castañeda et al. (2019) and is easily distinguish from the other batrachideines by slender body; antennae 20–22 segmented; anterior margin of the pronotum (lateral and dorsal view) hook-like (median carina sharply cristate); mid femur apical spine presence; wings present in all species; no brachypronotal form is known; presence of lateral darkish perpendicular band from eyes to disc pronotal region usually present ( Fig. 34 ). The genus Scaria consists of 11 species in four species groups: hamata group; lineata group; laeta group and producta group ( Cadena-Castañeda et al., 2019) ( Fig. 40 ).

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FIGURE 34. Scaria verutum (Grant, 1956) (holotype of Rehnidium verutum Grant, 1956) (A) left lateral view, (B) dorsal view, (C) frontal view and (D) labels. Scale bar = 5 mm. Photo of type: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia/Daniela Silva and Marcelo Pereira.

FIGURE 40. Map of approximated occurrence of the genus Scaria Bolívar, 1887.