Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of species
Author
Massa, Bruno
text
Zootaxa
2013
3700
3
435
475
journal article
43168
10.11646/zootaxa.3700.3.7
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Finotia
Bonnet, 1884
(type-species:
Finotia spinicolllis
Bonnet
)
The genus
Finotia
is characterized by the absence of wings and Krauss's organ, and the tympanum partially covered. The presence/absence of the Krauss's organ is a character used to divide
Pamphagidae
into subfamilies (e.g., Storozhenko & Paik 2011); the loss of this ancestral character in the genera
Finotia
and
Ocneridia
should be considered apomorphic, and consequently it does not seem useful to distinguish subfamilies (cf. Massa 2012a).