Neoconocephalus Karny, 1907

Antunes, André Fonseca, Souza-Dias, Pedro G. B. & Takiya, Daniela Maeda, 2025, Comments on Neoconocephalus Karny, 1907 (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Conocephalinae) species described by Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr.: The first contribution to the knowledge of South American species, Zootaxa 5584 (3), pp. 363-393 : 365

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.3.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:007DEADA-1E12-4B21-9682-EF208DF71DC7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14853413

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/595287BC-FFF3-8509-DEBC-FF46FC771034

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Plazi

scientific name

Neoconocephalus Karny, 1907
status

 

Neoconocephalus Karny, 1907 View in CoL

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Type species. Neoconocephalus subulatus ( Bolívar, 1881) View in CoL

Emended redescription (based on Naskrecki 2000). Head: Frons smooth; fastigium of vertex projected, basal tooth present, base wider than scapus width, apex longer than scapus length. Thorax: Pronotal disk smooth; lateral lobes faintly rough; prosternum with a pair of long spines; mesosternum triangular with rounded edges and two triangular lobes; metasternum triangular with semioval lobes. Wings: Tegmen developed and elongated, usually extending beyond abdomen apex. Legs: Precoxal spine present; foreleg with tympanum provided with two or three distinct areas; mid- and hindlegs always with spines. Color : Body with uniform or marbled coloration generally ranging from light green to brown, mandible and ventral part of tarsi and sometimes ventral part of fastigium of the vertex, black.

Description of male. Abdomen: Tenth tergite margin projected with two lateral projections. Cercus : Developed with two distal lobes, each lobe with spike-shaped apex facing proximally, dorsal lobe of cercus with a robust base, ventral lobe of cercus with terminal spine. Subgenital plate: Longer than wide, with prominent median and lateral carinae, posterior margin in an open V-shaped with two styles.

Description of female (based on Naskrecki 2000). Cercus : Long, cylindrical, and unmodified. Subgenital plate: Invaginated with two lateral projections; ovipositor straight and long.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tettigoniidae

SubFamily

Conocephalinae

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