Lichenodentix Cadena-Castañeda, 2011

Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., Braun, Holger & García, Alexander García, 2022, The tribe Dysoniini part VI: Phylogeny, biogeography and evolutionary trends of the lichen katydid genera (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae). Eleventh contribution to the suprageneric organization of Neotropical phaneropterines, Zootaxa 5166 (1), pp. 1-93 : 62

Lichenodentix Cadena-Castañeda, 2011

Diagnosis. Coloration white with black spots, frons, and thorax ventrally black ( Fig. 36 ); base of fore femur brown. Head elongate with elevated fastigium, undulate margins, wide in both lateral and frontal view ( Fig. 36A, C ). Vertex with a granule or evagination at the margin of each eye. Antennae nodose. Pronotum elevated at rear end, with denticulations on rear margin and lateral edges of metazona ( Fig. 36D ). Tegmina apically broadened at the anal margin, costal margin curved ( Fig. 36B ). Spines on hind femora moderately broadened and flattened. Male cerci robust, with inner and outer branches similar in size and curving inward ( Fig. 36E ). Male subgenital plate shorter than length of cerci ( Fig. 36F ).

Type species. Dysonia dentatithorax Piza, 1951 , by monotypy and original designation.

Distribution. Southeast of Brazil ( Map 19 ).

Figures

Map 19. Distribution map of Lichenodentix dentatithorax.

FIGURE 36. Lichenodentix dentatithorax. A–B. Habitus in lateral and dorsal view. C–D. Head and pronotum in lateral and dorsal view. E. Cercus. F. Subgenital plate. (Photos A and B F. Domenico. Figs E–F after Costa-Lima & Guitton, 1961).