The Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) described by Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr. and deposited in the collection of the University of São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura " Luiz de Queiroz ", Brazil
Author
Chamorro-Rengifo, Juliana
Author
Braun, Holger
text
Zootaxa
2010
2635
41
66
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.198409
4eb51d5a-162f-4e84-89b2-dca495a07b9f
1175-5326
198409
Gongrocnemis (Melanocnemis) karoli
(Piza, 1980)
comb. nov.
Lenkoia karoli
Piza, 1980
Lenkoia
Piza, 1980
syn. nov.
of
Gongrocnemis
Redtenbacher, 1895
, subgen.
Melanocnemis
Beier, 1954
The genus
Lenkoia
was placed into the subfamily
Phaneropterinae
, which is obviously wrong. This pale female specimen from São Paulo province, which possibly passed some time in alcohol and lost partly its coloration, is a typical member of the
Pseudophyllinae
, belonging either to
Pleminiini
or Platyphylini. It does not fit into any genus of the latter tribe, but is very similar to some
Gongrocnemis
species described from that region. It is probably identical to
Gongrocnemis (Melanocnemis) atrifrons
(
Giglio-Tos, 1900
)
, which is described from the neighbouring province Mato Grosso do Sul. This species also has a darkened face and a distinctly granulated pronotum, but from the old description alone it is impossible to decide.