genus

Paraproscopia Bentos-Pereira, 2006

Type

type species by original designation of Paraproscopia Bentos-Pereira, 2006

Paraproscopia Bentos-Pereira, 2006: 132.
type species by original designation Proscopia aberrans Hebard, 1923
Paraproscopia Bentos-Pereira, 2006 in Bentos-Pereira, Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona-Granda, 2015: 116.

Paraproscopia Bentos-Pereira, 2006 (classified as Proscopiina Serville, 1838) in Queiroz, Rafael & Heleodoro, 2026: 97.

Bentos-Pereira, A. (2006) Three new genera of Proscopiidae (Orthoptera, Eumastacoidea). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 15(2), 117–141. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282006%2915%5B117%3ATNGOPO%5D2.0.CO%3B2
Bentos-Pereira, A., Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona-Granda, J.M. (2015) In Familia Proscopiidae. In Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). pp. 95–141.

de Queiroz, L.L., Rafael, J.A. & Heleodoro, R.A. (2026) Systematics of Proscopiini Serville, 1838 (Orthoptera: Proscopiidae: Proscopiinae), with description of four new genera. Zootaxa, 5855(1), 1–141. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5855.1.1

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Named in relationship with Proscopia Klug because some species of this genus were split off from Proscopia.