Siliquofera Bolivar, 1903

Rentz, Dcf, Su, You Ning & Ueshima, Norihiro, 2009, Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae: The Phyllophorinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Phyllophorinae), Zootaxa 2075, pp. 55-68 : 56-57

Siliquofera Bolivar, 1903

Bolivar, I. 1903. Annls. Hist. Nat. Mus. Natn. Hungarici 1:173, 178 Eurygnathus Hesse & Doilein, 1914

Type species: Phyllophora grandis Blanchard , by original monotypy.

Siliquofera contains a single species which is distinctive in size and shape of the pronotum. The auditory foramen of the fore tibia is open and the lateral carinae of the pronotum are densely crenulate ( Fig. 3 B).

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FIGURE 3. A, Holotype female, Siliquofera grandis Blanchard, (MHNP). B, pronotum of same, dorsal view.; B, S. grandis, adult male, Bulolo, Papua New Guinea, head and pronotum.