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6. Genus STICTOSCARTA Stal 



Figures 38-43 

 Stictoscarta StAl, 1869a:61. Type-species: Tettigonia sulcicollis Germar, by 

 subsequent designation of Distant, 1908b:68. 



Length 14-16 mm. 



Head not strongly produced, anterior margin broadly rounded in 

 dorsal aspect, apex bluntly carinate, with a short carina laterad of each 

 ocellus, crown usually without pubescence; antennal ledges usually 

 not strongly elevated dorsally, sulcate; clypellus produced but not 

 angular in lateral aspect, contour of its lower portion at right angle to 

 profile of clypeus; other characters as in Homoscarta. 



Thorax with pronotum elongate, greatest width nearly equal to 

 transocular width of head, lateral margins convergent anteriorly, with 

 complete transverse sulcus near anterior margin and a broadly inter- 

 rupted one close behind, disc transversely rugose, posterior margin 

 usually very shallowly concave (convex in S. indebita Melichar), with in- 

 complete slightly curved dorsopleiual carinae ; scutellum usually trans- 

 versely rugose on posterior portion. Forewing with membrane including 

 all of apical and portion of anteapical cells, veins elevated and distinct, 

 basal portion of surface strongly coriaceous, finely punctate in clavus 

 and adjoining corium, with more than four apical cells, the base of 

 fourth proximal to base of third, without an anteapical plexus of veins, 

 with or without anteapical supernumerary veins to costal margin, 

 wings at rest not attaining ovipositor apex in female. Hindwing and 

 hindlegs as in Homoscarta. 



Male genitalia: Pygofer produced and rounded apically, with 

 microsetae and occasionally a few macrosetae located usually posteriorly 

 and posteroventrally, absent on disc; pygofer processes absent but with 

 a pair of lobes visible in caudoventral aspect. Plates fused throughout 

 length, not extending posteriorly as far as pygofer apex, each with a 

 dorsal anteapical projection, with numerous dispersed microsetae on 

 apical two-thirds and with very few macrosetae on disc before apex. 

 Style not extending as far posteriorly as apex of connective, with 

 distinct anteapical lobe and truncate apex, with few lateral anteapical 

 setae. Connective Y-shaped, with arms only slightly divergent, stem 

 elongate, keeled. Aedeagus symmetrical, slender, elongate, arched grad- 

 ually dorsally, with a pair of slender apical processes and occasionally 

 with a pair of processes arising on atrium. Paraphyses absent. 



Female abdominal sternum VII with a short median projection from 

 posterior margin, and occasionally with a lateral posterior projection 

 on each side also. 



