Genus Choriphyllum Serville, 1838

Chloriphyllum = Chloriphyllum Scudder, 1869.

Chorophyllum = Chorophyllum Fieber, 1845.

Type species.

Choriphyllum sagrai Serville, 1838.

Composition and distribution

(Figs 1, 2). The genus Choriphyllum contains four species. Choriphyllum bahamense Perez-Gelabert & Otte, 1999 is endemic to the Bahamas (Hummingbird Cay Island), while C. sagrai Serville, 1838, C. wallaceum sp. nov. and C. saussurei Bolívar, 1887 are found only in Cuba.

Diagnosis

(Figs 1, 3). The anterior margin of the pronotum is smooth (undulated in Phyllotettix). The capital sinus is long, deep and narrow. The highest point of the pronotum is before the middle or in the middle of the pronotum length (behind the middle in Phyllotettix). Apex of the pronotum strongly truncated (oblique in Phyllotettix (Rhombotettix) subgen. nov. or sharp in Phyllotettix (Phyllotettix) members).