Chloroscirtus Saussure et Pictet, 1897

Gorochov, A. V., 2018, Systematics of the American Katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Communication 8, Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 322 (4), pp. 398-456 : 451

Genus Chloroscirtus Saussure et Pictet, 1897

Note. This genus is included in the tribe Phaneropterini in OSF. However, this systematic position is erroneous, because Chloroscirtus has the male stridulatory apparatus more or less intermediate between such apparatuses in Scudderiini and Microcentrini ( Figs 319, 320 ), male genital plate with distinct styles ( Figs 321, 323, 330 ), and male abdominal apex as well as ovipositor similar to those of Plagiopleura (except for the shape of male last tergite having longer posterolateral lobes; Fig. 322 ); the structure of male cerci is especially similar in Plagiopleura type species and in Mexican Ch. forcipatus ( Brunner-Wattenwyl, 1878) .

Figures

Figs 311–330. Parableta Br.-W. and Chloroscirtus Sauss. et Pict.: 311, 312 – P. (Parableta) cercata sp. nov.; 313, 314 – P. (P.) nikolaii sp. nov.; 315, 316 – P. (P.)?boliviana Bruner; 317, 318 – P. (?P.) denticulata sp. nov.; 319–328 – Ch. columbianus sp. nov.; 329, 330 – Ch. discocercus Rehn [after Rehn (1918), modified]. Female genital plate from below (311, 313, 315, 317); ovipositor from side (312, 314, 316, 318); stridulatory apparatus of left (319) and right (320) male tegmina; male abdominal apex from below (321), from above (322) and from side (323); apical part of right male cercus from side (324), from side/above (325), from side/above/behind (326) and from behind but slightly from different positions (327, 328, 329); male genital plate from below (330).