Cuspicera, Ingrisch, 2023

Ingrisch, Sigfrid, 2023, New and little-known genera and species of Agraeciini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae) from New Guinea, Zootaxa 5249 (2), pp. 190-212 : 199-200

Cuspicera gen. nov.

Type species: Cuspicera luxoria spec. nov.

Diagnosis. Males differ from those of other species with prolonged pronotum fully covering the abbreviated wings by a combination of the following characters: prosternal spines long; lateral ventral projection of pronotum lateral lobes in or before mid-length; posterior area of pronotum slightly elevated against anterior area, with convex surface; male cerci short, provided with a narrow, basal-internal process and a wide and compressed apical-internal process; males micropterous, tegmen without apical flap behind stridulatory area; stridulatory file on underside of male left tegmen narrow, curved anteriorly, and provided with numerous, rather narrow and densely packed teeth; titillators with narrow outcurved basal area, straight central area and widened apical area with stiffened rim provided with species specific modifications, at end with an elongate apical flap that is obviously moveable against the central area. Females are unique for the modification of the subgenital plate, which is provided with rich projections and extensions in about basal half of the plate. The pronotum is shorter than in males, with truncate apical margin, and the ventral extension of the lateral lobes is distinctly behind mid-length of pronotum. The face of Cuspicera is less elongate than in Papucera but slightly more oval.

Etymology. The new genus is named for the long prosternal spines, a character in which it differs from other similar genera.