Parapetasia Bolivar 1884

GenusParapetasiaBolívar, 1884 Parapetasia Bolívar, 1884 (type species: Parapetasia femorata Bolívar, 1884 b, by monotypy). Parapetasia (Parapetasia) Rehn, 1953 Parapetasia (Loveridgea) Rehn, 1953 Parapetasia (Loveridgacris) Rehn, 1954 Diagnosis of the genus Parapetasia Bolívar. Fastigium of vertex triangular; tegmina vestigial, or if brachypterous, strongly reticulated; the eyes small, hemispherical, and prominent; posterior part of metazona raised, swollen, with median margin slightly or strongly emarginate; hind femora upper-median margin distinctly raised; male subgenital plate with slightly incised and parallel margins; epiphallic bridge narrow; appendices subparallel; ectophallus short; ventral process of cingulum broadly triangular. Differential diagnoses for species of Parapetasia. Parapetasia femorata can be easily distinguished from Parapetasia rammei by the following characters: tegmina dark brown, strongly reduced, vestigial, (yellow ‒ brown with brown veins, shortened or brachypterous, semilobed in P. rammei); first and / or second abdominal segments with a lateral black band behind the insertion points of the femora (absent in P. rammei); anterior projections of epiphallus large (small in P. rammei); lateral plates subparallel (oblique or divergent in P. rammei); lophi large, strongly curved (very small, slightly curved in P. rammei); suprazygomal plate widely rounded (U-shapedin P. rammei); apodemal lobes only slightly produced ventrally (strongly produced ventrally in P. rammei); basal emargination of cingulum shallow (very deep in P. rammei); endophallic apodemes short (strongly elongate or slender in P. rammei).