A new subtribe of the tribe Phisidini from America and remarks on the genus Arachnoscelis (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae)
A.V. Gorochov
Abstract. A new subtribe (Arachnoscelidina subtrib. nov.) and two new subgenera of the genus Arachnoscelis Karny (Centrophisis subgen. nov. and Peruphisis subgen. nov.) are described. All these taxa are distributed in America and probably belong to the tribe Phisidini of the katydid subfamily Meconematinae. Some problems of taxonomy and morphology of the Arachnoscelidina are briefly discussed.
Key words: katydids, taxonomy, America, Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Meconematinae, Phisidini, Arachnoscelis, new taxa
Zoosystematica Rossica, 2013, 22(1): 59-62 ▪ Published in print 25 June 2013
https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2013.22.1.59 ▪ Open full article 
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