Rowellscopia, Cadena-Castañeda, 2025

Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., 2025, Studies on stick grasshoppers: New Proscopiini taxa from Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica (Orthoptera: Proscopiidae), Zootaxa 5729 (1), pp. 105-134 : 112

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.1.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:936B239A-F185-400F-AA4C-470745FEAE36

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03907C79-F52A-352D-E0AD-F9DD24B8F81C

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Rowellscopia
status

gen. nov.

Key to Rowellscopia gen. nov. species

Males

1. Fastigium apex rounded; metathoracic median tubercle present. Epiproct ends in a rounded process; subgenital plate short and rounded. Medial slit of the phallotreme closed behind and bellow by ectophallic valves....... R. septentrionalis View in CoL comb. nov.

– Fastigium apex slightly truncate; metathoracic median tubercle absent. Epiproct ends in a sharply pointed median process; subgenital plate is more pointed and produced than the previous species. Medial slit of the phallotreme is not closed below by ectophallic valves................................................................. R. panamensis View in CoL comb. nov.

Females

1. Fastigium in lateral view slightly inclined upwards. Epiproct with an acute tip; subgenital plate apex with a spatulate rhomboid projection medially. Spermatheca with a single duct and apical diverticula ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 )......... R. septentrionalis View in CoL comb. nov.

– Fastigium in lateral view slightly sinuous. Epiproct with an obtuse tip; subgenital plate apex without medial projection. Spermatheca with two ducts and two apical diverticula ( Fig. 3D View FIGURE 3 )............................ R. panamensis View in CoL comb. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Proscopiidae

Genus

Rowellscopia

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