Biodiversity hotspot in the Sangha Trinational Protected Area revealed through Orthoptera Tettigoniidae
Author
Massa, Bruno
0000-0003-2127-0715
bruno.massa@unipa.it
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-08-18
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5331.1.1
journal article
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Genus
Anthracopsis
Karny, 1907
According to
Karny (1907)
the genus
Anthracopsis
(from Greek: coal-like appearance) is characterized by the following: fastigium verticis shorter and narrower than 1
st
antennal segment, conical, ventrally keeled, forehead with dense punctuation, blackish, pronotum rounded, posteriorly just enlarged, without lateral carinae, lateral lobes small, ventral margin oblique, straight, humeral sinus absent, with dense punctuation, tegmina very short, completely hidden by pronotum, meso- and metasternal lobes triangular, ovipositor laterally compressed, ventral margin falcate, basally incurved, then straight, apically enlarged, apex acute.
Anthracopsis
is a very characteristic micropterous genus with a vague similarity to some
Copiphorini Karny, 1912
(black face, rough punctuation, brown colour).