Scaphura | |
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Scaphura nigra | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Ensifera |
Family: | Tettigoniidae |
Subfamily: | Phaneropterinae |
Genus: | Scaphura Kirby, 1825 |
Scaphura is a Neotropical genus of bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae. Some of the species within Scaphura are Batesian mimics of wasps, for example the type species, Scaphura nigra, is a polymorphic Batesian mimic of wasps of the genus Pepsis and Entypus (Pompilidae) and the potter wasps Polistes (Vespidae). The genus is restricted to South America. Another genus of Neotropical phaneropterine bush crickets, Aganacris, also are Batesian mimics of wasps.
Species
The following species are included on Scaphura:
- Scaphura argentina (Hebard, 1931)
- Scaphura conspurcata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
- Scaphura denuda Guérin-Méneville & Percheron, 1836
- Scaphura edwardsii Westwood, 1828
- Scaphura elegans (Serville, 1838)
- Scaphura fasciata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
- Scaphura infuscata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
- Scaphura lefebvrei (Brullé, 1835)
- Scaphura marginata (Walker, 1869)
- Scaphura nigra (Thunberg, 1824)
- Scaphura obscurata (Stoll, 1813)
References
- ^ "genus Scaphura Kirby, 1825". Eades, D.C.; D. Otte; M.M. Cigliano & H. Braun. Orthoptera Species File. Version 5.0/5.0. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- Herrel, Anthony; Speck, Thomas (2006). Ecology and Biomechanics: A Mechanical Approach to the Ecology of Animals and Plants. CRC Press. ISBN 0849332095.
- Mesa, Alejo; Fontanetti, Carmen Silvia; Ferreira, Amilton (2010). "The chromosomes and the sex determining mechanism of Scaphura nigra (Orthoptera, Ensifera, Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae)". Journal of Orthoptera Research. 19 (2): 239–242.
- ter Hofstede, H.; et al. (2017). "Revisiting adaptations of Neotropical katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) to gleaning bat predation". Neotrop Biodivers. 3 (1): 41–49. doi:10.1080/23766808.2016.1272314. PMC 5312797.
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Scaphura |