Arboraptor, Mendes & Oliveira & Chamorro-Rengifo & Rafael, 2018

Mendes, Diego Matheus De Mello, Oliveira, Jomara Cavalcante De, Chamorro-Rengifo, Juliana & Rafael, José Albertino, 2018, Two new genera of predatory katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from the Amazon rainforest, Zootaxa 4438 (2), pp. 261-282 : 271-272

Arboraptor stigmata ( Nickle, 2003) comb. nov.

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Phlugis stigmata Nickle, 2003: 44; Eades et al., 2017.

Diagnosis. Apex of hind wings extending beyond tergite X and reaching median length of cerci ( Fig. 10A ). Posterior margin of tergite X bilobate, with two rounded lobes in dorsal view ( Fig. 10H ). Cerci elongate, longer than subgenital plate and styli cylindrical, slightly curved in dorsal view, sinuous in lateral view and with distal portion decurved and laterally flattened ( Fig. 10E–G ). Styles curved, parallel sided and with its internal margins not touching each other in the basal and median regions ( Fig. 10E ).

Geographical records. Peru: Loreto ( Fig. 19 ).

Comments. This species was originally described in Phlugis by Nickle (2003). As in A. viridis sp. nov., this species shares diagnostic characters of the new genus here proposed, with males having asymmetric jaws, head in dorsal view laterally broadened and rounded, and apex of tegmen not extending beyond the apex of the cerci.

Despite the detailed description made by the author of males and females, the morphology of the stridulatory file and internal genitalia were not noted.

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FIGURE 10. Arboraptor stigmata comb. nov. (holotype male). A: habitus, lateral view; B: head, frontal view; C: Head and pronotum, lateral view; D: Stridulatory apparatus, dorsal view; E–G: Terminalia, lateral, ventral and dorsal view respectively. Abbreviations: Cer: cerci; Sty: styli; Pl: subgenital plate.

FIGURE 19. Geographical records of Arboraptor gen. nov. and Tyrannoraptor gen. nov.