Parapetasia Bolívar, 1884

Genus Parapetasia Bolívar, 1884 View in CoL

Parapetasia Bolívar, 1884 View in CoL (type species: Parapetasia femorata Bolívar, 1884 b View in CoL , by monotypy).

Parapetasia ( Parapetasia) Rehn, 1953 View in CoL

Parapetasia ( Loveridgea) Rehn, 1953 View in CoL

Parapetasia ( Loveridgacris) Rehn, 1954 View in CoL

Diagnosis of the genus Parapetasia Bolívar.

Fastigium of vertex triangular; tegmina vestigial, or if brachypterous, strongly reticulated; the eyes small, hemispherical, and prominent; posterior part of metazona raised, swollen, with median margin slightly or strongly emarginate; hind femora upper-median margin distinctly raised; male subgenital plate with slightly incised and parallel margins; epiphallic bridge narrow; appendices subparallel; ectophallus short; ventral process of cingulum broadly triangular.

Differential diagnoses for species of Parapetasia .

Parapetasia femorata can be easily distinguished from Parapetasia rammei by the following characters: tegmina dark brown, strongly reduced, vestigial, (yellow ‒ brown with brown veins, shortened or brachypterous, semilobed in P. rammei ); first and / or second abdominal segments with a lateral black band behind the insertion points of the femora (absent in P. rammei ); anterior projections of epiphallus large (small in P. rammei ); lateral plates subparallel (oblique or divergent in P. rammei ); lophi large, strongly curved (very small, slightly curved in P. rammei ); suprazygomal plate widely rounded (U-shapedin P. rammei ); apodemal lobes only slightly produced ventrally (strongly produced ventrally in P. rammei ); basal emargination of cingulum shallow (very deep in P. rammei ); endophallic apodemes short (strongly elongate or slender in P. rammei ).