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<paragraph id="572FF89D13FE82064DB8DC1E2AC1B09C" pageId="2" pageNumber="79">Taxon classification Animalia Orthoptera Phaneropteridae</paragraph>
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Genus
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<paragraph id="4C29F0529F869E1F034ADBC11572D46F" pageId="2" pageNumber="79">Remarks.</paragraph>
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When
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described the genus
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(from Latin: symmetro = symmetric, equal; pleura = side), he placed it in the American group of
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. According to
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characters of the genus are the following: fastigium of vertex triangular and sulcate; pronotum disc flat, with lateral excisions, anterior margin straight, and rounded posterior margin; tegmina wide with rounded hind margin or narrow with straight hind margin; fore and mid femora with ventral inner spines, hind femora with double row of ventral spines. Fore and mid tibiae dorsally unarmed or with some spinules; cerci long, in-curved and pointed; male sub-genital plate short with rounded posterior margin or (in
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) long with triangular apex; styli absent; ovipositor longer than pronotum, not much curved, sharp, with upper and lower apices serrate (differently shaped in
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: see below); female sub-genital plate triangular, just concave. In the description
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referred mainly to
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, both within the text and in the figure 73; thus, by subsequent designation,
<bibRefCitation id="47154D143516DB4AF4934A46827FA935" author="Kirby, WF" journalOrPublisher="The Trustees of the British Museum, London" pageId="14" pageNumber="91" title="A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. Vol. II. Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae)." year="1906">Kirby (1906)</bibRefCitation>
established
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as the type-species of the genus. The description of the female of
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by
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from Bahia (Brasil) is as follows (translated from Latin): small (28 mm), tegmina width about two times the length of pronotum, anterior margin basally pale with a darker outer area, posterior margin rounded. Radius forked before Media, ovipositor little up-curved, acuminate.
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<bibRefCitation id="1BA16007A9ACEB5B67B2DBE7BA6CC129" author="Ragge, DR" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin British Museum (Natural History) Entomology" pageId="14" pageNumber="91" pagination="73 - 108" title="An index-catalogue of African Phaneropterinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae)." volume="22" year="1968 b">Ragge (1968b</bibRefCitation>
,
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) pointed out that
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is a New World genus, occurring in South America, Mexico and eastern USA, and that the two African species are not very similar either to each other or to the Neotropical type-species of the genus. He observed also that the name
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Karsch, 1888 was available for
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. However, the genus
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should be considered a junior homonym, because was pre-occupied since 1879, when
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Bourguignat (
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) was described from Lake Tanganyika (R. Poggi, pers. comm.)1.
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There are three African species so far included in the genus
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: one of them is
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, others are
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Karsch, 1889, that occurs in Madagascar, treated below, and
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(Walker, 1869), that occurs in South Africa. Concerning the latter, some photographs, kindly taken by C. Hemp, show that the pronotum is not keeled and the male sub-genital plate has a very different shape from that of
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and
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; it is very probable that it belongs to another undescribed genus, but specimens were not available to establish this.
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For the reasons reported above and below, two new genera are described for
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and
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.
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