Description of Phelene reinschmidti from Ecuador with notes on the subfamily Lophotettiginae (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae) Author Kasalo, Niko 0000-0002-3139-6349 Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, HR- 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Author Husemann, Martin 0000-0001-5536-6681 Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Erbprinzenstraße 13, D- 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany Author van de Kamp, Thomas 0000-0001-7390-1318 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Photon Science and Synchrotron Radiation (IPS), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, D- 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Karlsruhe, Germany & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Laboratory for Applications of Synchrotron Radiation, Kaiserstr. 12, D- 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Author Skejo, Josip 0000-0002-2554-4499 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Evolution Lab, Horvatovac 102 a, HR- 10000 Zagreb, Croatia text Evolutionary Systematics 2024 2024-05-28 8 1 119 125 journal article 10.3897/evolsyst.8.124285 7583B1DD-2B0C-49ED-A68C-7C02C1F1AECC Genus Phelene Bolívar , 1906 Nephele Bolívar , 1887: 252 . (junior homonym of Nephele Hübner, 1819 ); Phelene Bolívar , 1906: 392 . (replacement name); Kirby 1910: 23 . (catalogued); Günther, 1938: 307 . (diagnosis); Yin et al. 1996: 899 . (catalogued); Cadena-Castañeda and Cardona 2015: 477 . (noted as a synonym of Chiriquia ); Silva et al. 2019 (mentioned); Cadena-Castañeda et al. 2021: 357 . (revision); Gladiotettix Hancock, 1907: 40 . (diagnosis in English, obsolete replacement name); Bruner 1910: 101 . (Hancock’s descriptions of the species which was later assigned to Lophotettix ). Differential diagnosis. Antennal segments flattened, but oval (apical segments triangular in Lophotettix ). Low pronotal crest (medium to tall in Lophotettix ). Anterior and middle femora smooth (moderately tuberculated in Lophotettix ). Type species. Phelene turgida ( Bolívar , 1887 ) Composition and distribution. P. maroon Cadena-Castañeda & Tumbrinck, 2021 , P. turgida ( Bolívar , 1887 ), P. reinschmidti sp. nov. The genus seems to be restricted to the northern half of South America. Note. We identified two female specimens of P. turgida from Peru at the Zoologische Staatssammlung München ( ZSM ), which we present in Fig. 1 to aid in comparison with the new species. Additionally, we identified two male specimens of this species at the ZSM with the following label data: Peru , Prov. Huanuco / b. Yuyapichis, Stat. Panguana / 9 ° 37 ' S , 74 ° 36 ' W Lux Wald / Baum liegend, 20.9. – 7. 10. 2013 / leg. Burmeister. Figure 1. Phelene turgida specimens deposited in ZSM. A. The locality where the specimens were collected; B. Label, same for both specimens; C. Two female specimens depicted in lateral, frontal, and dorsal views. All photos are to the same scale except the frontal views. Scale bar: 1 mm.