Scaria Bolivar 1887
Creators: name: Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J.
name: Mendes, Diego Matheus De Mello
name: Silva, Daniela Santos Martins
name: Granda, Juan Manuel Cardona
name: García, Alexander García
name: Tumbrinck, Josef
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tetrigidae
Scaria

description: Key to Scaria species
1. Lateral carinae of frontal costa subparallel or divergent, but never flared. Tegmina with spots or not, but never with a ventral strip. Male terminalia with subgenital plate usually mid-sized and globose, and with slender, non-conical cerci, ovipositor valves elongate, dagger like............................................................................. 2
- Lateral carinae of the frontal costa flared below the paired ocelli (Figs. 8B,C, 9B,C). Tegmina with a broad, light colored stripe covering at least half the ventral edge, and a large ellipsoidal subapical spot (Figs. 8C, 9C). Male terminalia with short, thin subgenital plate, cerci stout and conical (Figs. 8 E–G); ovipositor valves short and broad (Figs. 9E,F) (Laeta Group) .......................................................................................... S. laeta stat. ressurr.
2. Face greenish-yellow or whitish and post-ocular stripe present (excluding S. ferruginea), margin of prozona moderately curved and raised towards the anterior spine...................................................................... 4
- Face brownish, lacking a post-ocular stripe (Figs. 10C, 12C), margin of prozona strongly curved and raised towards the anterior spine (Figs. 11A, 12A) (Producta Group) ................................................................. 3
3. Pronotum dark brown with a dorsal, reddish brown spot (Fig. 1). Hind femora without lobes on dorsal edge. Tegmina spotless, subgenital plate of males curving upwards in a 90 90° angle (Fig. 10E)................................... S. maculata
- Pronotum brown with a green lime stripe in the lower half of the lateral lobes of pronotum and well into the dorsal median line of the pronotal disc (Fig. 11A,D, 12A,D). Hind femora with two or three low lobes along dorsal edge (Fig. 2I). Tegmina with a basal spot and subapical spot (Figs. 11C, 12C), Subgenital plate in males not curving as noticeably (Figs. 12E,F)...................................................................................................... S. producta
4. Face whitish (only S. ferruginea has a brownish face), mid femora length 3–4 times longer than wide, most ventral border of the eyes on a line with or below most of the dorsal height of the exposed area of the tegmina; male epiproct with a narrow distal prolongation; pronotum mostly black, in most cases also with a whitish line align the midline of the pronotal disc, line that can either be simple or expand to cover all the pronotal disc (in S. fasciata some specimens display a couple of whitish lines, one to each side of the lateral margin of the pronotal disc) (Lineata Group).......................................... 5
- Face yellowish-green (rarely brown-greenish), mid femora six times longer than wide, most ventral border of the eyes higher than the most dorsal exposed area of the tegmina; male epiproct with no distal protrusion, pronotal coloration lime green or green-bluish (Hamata Group) .......................................................................... 8
5. Dorsal midline present, covering only the midline (Fig. 15B) or expanding to cover the whole of the pronotal disc (Fig. 17B) ................................................................................................... 6
- Dorsal midline lacking, (Fig. 15B) a white line on each side on the lateral border of the pronotal disc occurring in some specimens (Fig. 13B)................................................................................ S. fasciata
6. Cephalic capsule whitish, always with a post-ocular stripe, ovipositor 2.5 times as long as the as subgenital plate......... 7
- Cephalic capsule brown, post-ocular stripe usually lacking (Figs. 18C, 19C), but when it occurs, it is very slight; ovipositor 1.5 times as long as subgenital plate (Fig. 18G)........................................................ S. ferruginea
7. Pronotal disc with a mid-dorsal line, spotless tegmina (Figs. 15, 16)....................................... S. lineata
- Pronotal disc whitish overall, tegmina with an ovoid subapical spot (Fig. 17)..................... S. verutum comb. nov.
8. Stripe of the upper half of the lateral margin of the pronotum black and only covering the upper margin of the lateral lobe of the pronotum; male epiproct with a triangular tip, penultimate male sternite rounded and poorly pronounced................ 9
- Stripe of the upper half of the lateral margin of the pronotum black and slight, being only a line that separates the lower and upper margins of the lateral lobes of the pronotum; male epiproct with a rounded tip, penultimate male sternite with a triangular projection.......................................................................................... 10
9. Male and female coloration much alike, variable but never olive-green with irregular, diffuse, dark brownish stripes (Figs. 20A, 21A). Male cerci with a similar thickness in all their length and with an obliquely truncated tip (Fig. 20G). Ovipositor slender, 2.5 times as long as subgenital plate (Fig. 20F)....................................................... S. hamata
- Female coloration mostly olive-green with whitish punctuations and abundant, diffuse dark brown stripes on pronotum and legs (Fig. 22). Male cerci with similar thickness in all their length and with a rounded tip, ovipositor stout, 1.5 times as long as subgenital plate............................................................................... S. boliviana
10. Tegmina with light colored stripe covering the dorsal margin between the medial vein and anal edge (Figs. 26C, 27C, 28C). Epiproct of male spear-shaped and with a rounded tip (Fig. 26E)............................................... 11
- Tegmina lacking a light-colored stripe on the dorsal margin between the medial vein and anal edge (Fig. 24C). Epiproct triangular and pointy-tipped (Fig. 24E)........................................................... S. rafaeli sp. nov.
11. Stripe of the upper half of the lateral lobes of the pronotum interrupted at the level of the humero-apical carinae (Figs. 27A, 28A). Tegmina spot small and circular; anterior pronotal spine curved downwards (Fig. 27C), subgenital plate of male as long as wide (Fig. 27F)........................................................................ S. jonasi sp. nov.
- Stripe of the upper half of the lateral lobes of the pronotum uninterrupted (Fig. 26A). Tegmina spot mid-sized and ovoid; anterior pronotal spine not downwardly curved (Fig. 26C); subgenital plate of male wider than long (Fig. 26F)..................................................................................................... S. granti sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J., Mendes, Diego Matheus De Mello, Silva, Daniela Santos Martins, Granda, Juan Manuel Cardona, García, Alexander García & Tumbrinck, Josef, 2019, Systematics and biogeography of the genus Scaria Bolívar, 1887 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae: Batrachideinae), pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 4675 (1) on pages 15-16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4675.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3465115