Phloeonotini Kasalo & Skejo, 2025

Damien, Niko Kasalo, Laure, Damien Brouste, Christophe, Laure Desutter-Grandcolas, Domagoj, Christophe Hervé, Josip, Domagoj Bogić & Skejo, Josip, 2025, Atlas of New Caledonian Tetrigidae with preliminary suprageneric classification of Batrachideinae, Zoosystema 47 (18), pp. 327-397 : 346

Tribe Phloeonotini Kasalo & Skejo n. tribe

TYPE GENUS. — Phloeonotus Bolívar, 1887 .

COMPOSITION. — Phloeonotus Bolívar, 1887 .

DISTRIBUTION. — Central and southern Africa.

DIAGNOSIS. — Frontal costa bifurcation nearly at top of face. Paired ocelli at half of eye height. Midline of antennal grooves at level of ventral margin of eyes. Antennae long and filiform, composed of around 20 visible segments. Vertex wide and straight. Anterior margin of pronotum projected in form of long helm with downpointing tip. Median carina elevated throughout most of its length. Mostly smooth anterior femora; middle femora a little expanded. First segment of anterior tarsus elongated, third segment of hind tarsus approximately as long as first. Hind femur slender. Paranota without ventral sinus.

REMARK

Although the genus Phloeonotus resembles Cassitettigini members in certain ways, we separate it into its own tribe due to the strong differences in head morphology coupled with some differences in pronotum and leg morphology.