New and little-known genera and species of Agraeciini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae) from New Guinea
Author
Ingrisch, Sigfrid
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-03-01
5249
2
190
212
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5249.2.2
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5249.2.2
1175-5326
7687190
912A41A4-BB47-40FE-A6EA-A7871C9E5B08
Cuspicera
gen. nov.
Type
species:
Cuspicera luxoria
spec. nov.
Diagnosis.
Males differ from those of other species with prolonged pronotum fully covering the abbreviated wings by a combination of the following characters: prosternal spines long; lateral ventral projection of pronotum lateral lobes in or before mid-length; posterior area of pronotum slightly elevated against anterior area, with convex surface; male cerci short, provided with a narrow, basal-internal process and a wide and compressed apical-internal process; males micropterous, tegmen without apical flap behind stridulatory area; stridulatory file on underside of male left tegmen narrow, curved anteriorly, and provided with numerous, rather narrow and densely packed teeth; titillators with narrow outcurved basal area, straight central area and widened apical area with stiffened rim provided with species specific modifications, at end with an elongate apical flap that is obviously moveable against the central area. Females are unique for the modification of the subgenital plate, which is provided with rich projections and extensions in about basal half of the plate. The pronotum is shorter than in males, with truncate apical margin, and the ventral extension of the lateral lobes is distinctly behind mid-length of pronotum. The face of
Cuspicera
is less elongate than in
Papucera
but slightly more oval.
Etymology.
The new genus is named for the long prosternal spines, a character in which it differs from other similar genera.