Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Grupo de Investigación en Artrópodos "Kumangui", Bogotá, Colombia..
Universidad INCCA de Colombia. Grupo en Ecología Evolutiva y Biogeografía Tropical ECOBIT..
Zootaxa. 2021 Jun 4;4981(2):331356. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.2.7.
The tribe Otteiini is a group of cave crickets, that were believed only to inhabit the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Cayman Islands, and Hispaniola). However, when reviewing and studying similar cave crickets in Mexico, their relationship was proven with island taxa, expanding their distribution to the continental area, from the Yucatan Peninsula to the Gulf and Northeast of Mexico. Herein, the genus Paracophus is divided, and three additional genera are described: Hubbellcophus n. gen., Venegascophus n. gen. and Hortacophus n. gen. Also, two additional species for Paracophus are described (P. victoriensis n. sp. and P. velazquezi n. sp.). Diagnoses for all genera and dichotomous keys for genera and species are provided. Finally, the taxonomic relationships between the insular and continental taxa of the tribe are discussed, and the different taxonomic placements they had over time, with some genera located in Phalangopsinae and Luzarinae (Phalangopsidae) and Pentacentrinae (Gryllidae).
奥泰氏蟋蟀族是蟋蟀科的一个族群，过去人们以为它们只栖息在大安的列斯群岛（古巴、开曼群岛和海地）。然而，在对墨西哥的类似洞穴蟋蟀进行审查和研究时，发现它们与岛屿分类群有关联，从而将它们的分布范围扩大到了从尤卡坦半岛到墨西哥湾和东北部的大陆地区。在此，将 Paracophus 属进行了细分，并描述了另外三个属：Hubbellcophus n. gen.、Venegascophus n. gen. 和 Hortacophus n. gen. 此外，还描述了 Paracophus 的两个附加种（P. victoriensis n. sp. 和 P. velazquezi n. sp.）。提供了所有属的诊断以及属和种的二叉分类键。最后，讨论了该族岛屿和大陆分类群之间的分类关系，以及它们随着时间的推移在不同分类位置的情况，其中一些属位于 Phalangopsinae 和 Luzarinae（Phalangopsidae）以及 Pentacentrinae（Gryllidae）中。
