Studies on Neotropical crickets: The continental Otteiini taxa (Orthoptera Phalangopsidae), those cave crickets are not confined to the West Indies Author Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J. Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Grupo de Investigación en Artrópodos “ Kumangui ”, Bogotá, Colombia. Universidad INCCA de Colombia. Grupo en Ecología Evolutiva y Biogeografía Tropical ECOBIT. Author Soto, Wolfang Andrés Rodríguez Author Cárdenas, Andrea Del Pilar Floréz Author Acevedo, Angélica text Zootaxa 2021 2021-06-04 4981 2 331 356 journal article 5906 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.2.7 f29e243d-c83d-4900-a356-48bf5aac92fd 1175-5326 4920604 92C35BC7-A705-4477-9C0E-C4414696EB0D Cubacophus Ruíz-Baliú & Otte, 1997 http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera .speciesfile.org:TaxonName:27824 Diagnosis. Eyes not reduced (as wide as half of the scapus) and normally pigmented. Pronotum wider than long, with lower margins of lateral lobes moderately expanded to the sides.Apterous species. Legs exceptionally long and slender. Hind tibia always with 3 dorsal spurs on each side and two subapical spurs, all tarsi slender and elongated, first tarsomere unarmed dorsally and as long as a third of its respective tibiae. Abdominal tergites unspecialized and with glandular organs present on the third and fourth tergites, except the females. Male epiproctus longer than wide. Cerci slender and longer than the hind femur. Ovipositor slightly up-curved, three-fourths as long as the hind femur, with the apex dorsally rounded and bearing minute serrulations. Male genitalia: elongated; ectophallic fold thin, very long and flagellum-shaped; pseudepiphallic median lophi with a notch as deep as narrow, or very shallowly concave; pseudepiphallic paramere thin and hooklike apically; endophallic apodeme membranous; ectophallic apodeme joining in the first part of its length, then diverging (Fig. D-F). Taxa included: Cubacophus caymani ( Otte & Perez-Gelabert, 2009 ) ( type species), C. gibaraensis Ruíz-Baliú & Otte, 1997 , C. glaber (Bonfils, 1981) and C. velutinus (Bonfils, 1981) .