Hortacophus Cadena-Castañeda, 2021

Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., Soto, Wolfang Andrés Rodríguez, Cárdenas, Andrea Del Pilar Floréz & Acevedo, Angélica, 2021, Studies on Neotropical crickets: The continental Otteiini taxa (Orthoptera Phalangopsidae), those cave crickets are not confined to the West Indies, Zootaxa 4981 (2), pp. 331-356 : 350-351

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.2.7

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:92C35BC7-A705-4477-9C0E-C4414696EB0D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5046416

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9B2BF574-4A3E-EE4C-FF6C-EB11DAEFFF2F

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scientific name

Hortacophus Cadena-Castañeda
status

gen. nov.

Hortacophus Cadena-Castañeda n. gen.

http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera .speciesfile.org:TaxonName:514184

Diagnosis. Eyes not reduced (as wide as half of the scapus) and normally pigmented. Pronotum subquadrate, almost as wide as long with well-defined but rounded anterior and posterior ventral angles, ventral margins of the lateral lobes concave or rounded ( Fig. 14B View FIGURE 14 ). Apterous species. Mesonotum well-sclerotized and brownish. Legs relatively short and stout, hind tibia with three or four dorsal spurs on each margin; all tarsi slender and elongated, first tarsomere armed dorsally and as long as a third of its respective tibiae. Abdominal tergites with paired mesal glandular openings on the intersegmental membranes behind tergites fourth to sixth, but with no dorsum modification. Male epiproctus rectangular and wider than long. Cerci slender and barely longer than the hind femur. Ovipositor straight, three-fourths as long as the hind femur. Distally valves slightly broader than the shaft, and dorsally, a shallow diagonal sulcus separates the dorsal valves. Male genitalia compact, ectophallic fold conspicuous, membranous and conical; pseudepiphallic median lophi with a medial notch and divided dorsally, lateral borders with a straight spine like a projection posteriorly, not up-curved in lateral view; pseudepiphallic paramere reduced and without additional projections: endophallic apodeme membranous; endophallic sclerite reduced in two small spines at arc level; ectophallic apodeme slim and short, in lateral view curved and parallel ( Fig. 14 View FIGURE 14 F-H).

Etymology. Dedicated to Jorge Víctor Horta Vega, in recognition of his excellent teaching work at the Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico (Victoria campus), as well as thanks for all his support for the first author during his stay in Mexico. With the ending - cophus , referring to its closeness to that genus. Gender is designated as neutral.

Taxa included: Hortacophus apterus ( Chopard, 1947) n. comb.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

SubOrder

Ensifera

Family

Gryllidae

SubFamily

Phalangopsinae

Tribe

Otteiini

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