Comments on the recent changes in taxonomy of pygmy unicorns, with description of a new species of Metopomystrum from Brazil (Insecta, Tetrigidae, Cleostratini, Miriatrini)

Abstract The tribe Cleostratini Bolívar, 1887 sensu Storozhenko, 2016 does not represent a monophyletic taxon because it gathers various Tetrigidae genera with various types of horn and prolongation of frons or vertex. Prolongation of these structures is present in morphologically and biogeographically distant groups. We do not regard Miriatrini Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona, 2015 synonymous with Cleostratini because the genus Miriatra Bolívar, 1906 belongs to a group of genera distant from Cleostratus Stål, 1877. There is no adequate diagnosis for proposed groups of genera forming tribes Cleostratini or Miriatrini. Miriatrini stat. resurr. are monotypic and include only Miriatra, Cleostratini are monotypic as well. Apteromystrum Storozhenko, 2016 syn. n. is regarded synonymous with Metopomystrum, M. apterum comb. resurr., M. amazoniensis comb. resurr. and Miriatra brevifastigiata (Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona, 2015), comb. n. are not Metopomystrum member. Herein a new species of pygmy unicorn, Metopomystrum muriciense Silva & Skejo, sp. n., is described from Atlantic Forest remnants in northeast of Brazil, collected on the Estação Serra do Ouro (municipality of Murici, Alagoas state). Distribution data, morphological characterization, and an identification key to Metopomystrum species are also presented.

Our aims are (1) to describe a new species of pygmy unicorn from Atlantic Forest in the state of Alagoas, Brazil, by providing distribution data, morphological characterization and an identification key for species of the genus, (2) to test if there are relevant differences between Metopomystrum and Apteromystrum regardless of the presence of wings and (3) to discuss taxonomic and evolutionary aspects of Cleostratinae, Cleostratini, and Miriatrini.

Materials and methods
Sampling and study area. The specimen of the new species of pygmy unicorn was collected by the "Biota de Orthoptera do Brasil" research group, 21-23 January 2013 at the Estação Serra do Ouro, municipality of Murici (state of Alagoas, Brazil) (coordinates 9°14.54'S, 35°50.2'W), with a pitfall trap containing ethanol fuel killing solution.
Microscopy and photography. External morphological characteristics were examined using a Zeiss Stemi 2000 stereomicroscope and photographed with Zeiss Stereo Discovery V20 stereomicroscope. Photographs were taken with the multidimensional acquisition function with AXIO VISION software, which allows capturing a series of pictures at different focal planes. The resulting images were then combined into a single picture using the Extended Focus Z function. The image plates were prepared in image editing software. Photographs of lateral and dorsal view of the holotype were taken, as well as more detailed photographs of important morphological characters (antennal segments, frontal costa, fastigium, vertex, maxillary palp, lateral lobes of the pronotum, sternomentum, abdomen (lateral and ventral profile), forelegs, hind femur, supranal plate, cerci, and subgenital plate.
Distribution map and depository of type specimen. Distribution map ( Fig. 1) was produced with all available distribution records of the species of Metopomystrum (before Storozhenko, 2016). Geographical coordinates of localities were estimated using the information available in the literature (Table 1). The holotype of the new species is deposited in the Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ).

Taxonomic comment on Metopomystrum brevifastigiata
The species Metopomystrum brevifastigiata Cadena-Castañeda and Cardona, 2015 is not member of Metopomystrum nor Apteromystrum, but its holotype represents a male nymph of Miriatra sp. The holotype of M. brevifastigiata lacks antegenicular teeth on the hind femora which implies that it is not an adult animal. Head and pronotal morphology is also rather different from Metopomystrum and Apteromystrum species and represents a typical set of characters defining Miriatra. Thus, the new combination Miriatra brevifastigiata (Cadena-Castañeda and Cardona, 2015) comb. n. should be used when referring to this specimen. This species is very close to Miriatra producta (Bolívar, 1887) and the differences should be checked when adults will be found.

Re-evaluation of diagnostic characters separating Metopomystrum and Apteromystrum
Storozhenko (2016) (2016) is not completely satisfactory. For most of the diagnostic characters of Metopomystrum (M1, M2, M3, M4, M7, M8, M9) there is no comparison with corresponding characters of Apteromystrum and there are only three Apteromystrum characters, which is not satisfactory as generic diagnosis, because the main diagnostic character for Apteromystrum is the lack of visible flight organs (A1 contrary to M6), while A3 is the same as M5 and for A2 there is no comparison with Metopomystrum. Concerning diagnostic characters, there are no significant differences in morphology, except for lack of wings in Apteromystrum. However, apterous A. amazoniensis morphologically looks more similar to biogeographically closer M. pehlkei and M. lilianae than to A. muriciense Silva & Skejo, sp. n. and A. apterum from Brazil. Thus, we do not regard the division in two genera necessary but regard Apteromystrum Storozhenko, 2016, syn. n. synonymous with Metopomystrum. Here we provide a redescription and diagnosis of the genus. Revised generic description. Head. Frontal costa bifurcation situated above the paired lateral ocelli, between the compound eyes, so the frontal costa is long and evident before bifurcation, scutellum narrower than scapus, antennal grooves situated at the level of the lower margins of the compound eyes, paired lateral ocelli situated between the compound eyes, head and eyes exserted above pronotum, eyes protruding, so the vertex is not visible in lateral view, antennae 15-segmented, filiform, with cylindrical segments and smooth margins, fastigium narrower than the compound eyes, lateral carinae of the vertex continuous, not elevated, median carina of the vertex very weak, almost absent, anterior margin of the vertex rounded or acute, fastigium of the vertex projecting forwards and forming a horn longer than combined length of a compound eye and frontal costa above its bifurcation, dorsum of the horn with deep depression formed of joined fossulae, frontal ridge in lateral view with weak excision between the compound eyes.
Pronotum. slender in appearance, anterior margin truncated, prozonal carinae present, parallel or slightly diverging, extralateral carinae indistinct, median carina continuous from the anterior margin to the posterior apex, pronotal projections lacking, humeral angle wide, obliquely rounded, interhumeral carinae indistinct, interscapular area in winged species narrow with parallel margins, in wingless species as wide as mid femur, lateral area wider in wingless species, humero-apical, humeral and lateral carinae continuous, not armed or tuberculated, paranota triangular, lateral lobes of the pronotum directed slightly sidewards, with rounded apex lacking ventrolateral spine, dorsum of pronotum between the carinae smooth, pronotal apex truncated or acute.
Legs. Fore and mid femora not significantly compressed, fore femora with straight to slightly undulated dorsal and ventral margins, not armed with teeth or spines, mid femora not compressed, carinated above, with straight to slightly undulated dorsal and more undulated ventral margins, hind femora with smooth dorsal and ventral margins, dorsal margin with genicular and antigenicular teeth in hind knee, transverse ridges in the external surface well visible, not armed with lappets or spines, hind tibiae and tarsi not flattened or widened.

New species description
Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from other species of Metopomystrum by the following set of characters: (i) long and acute fastigium, directed forwards, slightly upwards in its apex, (ii) forehead, genae and posthumeral spots in the pronotum yellowish, (iii) tegmina, alae and tegminal sinus absent, (iv) lateral lobes of the pronotum directed slightly sidewards, with rounded apex and yellowish band, (v) sternomentum necklace-shaped, brown with yellowish spots.
Comparative notes. The species can easily be separated from winged Colombian species (M. lilianae and M. pehlkei) by the horn morphology, fastigium having a rounded anterior margin in those species, while it is acute in M. muriciense Silva & Skejo, sp. n., and it is directed upwards in those species, while forwards in M. muriciense Silva & Skejo, sp. n. Metopomystrum lilianae and M. pehlkei are winged species, with visible tegmina, narrower than the maximum width of the mid femora, and tegminal sinus, hence narrow infrascapular area which is wide and evident in apterous M. muriciense Silva & Skejo, sp. n. From the apterous Colombian species M. amazoniensis, the new species can be separated by the straight horn, not directed upwards as in M. amazoniensis. However, the two species only share morphology of the anterior margin, laterally vertex being narrower in M. muriciense Silva & Skejo, sp. n. than in M. amazoniensis. The occipital area in M. muriciense Silva & Skejo, sp. n. is much longer than in Colombian species of the genus. The species is morphologically most similar to M. apterum, also from Brazil, with which it shares numerous morphological features, differing however in horn (projection of the fastigium of the vertex) direction-forwards and slightly upwards in M. muriciense Silva & Skejo, sp. n., while slightly downwards in M. apterum. In M. muriciense Silva & Skejo, sp. n. the vertex is narrower and more acute than in M. apterum.
Holotype description. Head. In lateral view (Figs 2C, 3A): occipital area elongated and granulated, head and compound eye insert exerted above the pronotal disc; vertex is not visible; fastigium of vertex and frontal carina forming long triangular horn with acute apex that is as long as the compound eye measured from its most frontal point to the apex; frontal carina not projecting; antennal groove situated slightly below the compound eye, almost at the level of its lower margin; palpi compressed, segments enlarging towards apex. In frontal view ( Fig. 2A): frontal costa above the bifurcation long; frontal costa bifurcation placed between the compound eyes; scutellum very narrow; scapus two times as wide as scutellum; antennae filiform with 15 antennomeres, segments elongated, cylindrical with smooth margins, paired lateral ocelli situated between the compound eyes, slightly below the frontal costa bifurcation; median ocellus placed in the end of facial carinae, in the place where frontal costa shallowly continues towards the clypeal triangle, of which carinae are also weak and not prominent, in the widest part; head slightly wider than the width between the lateral margins of the compound eyes. In dorsal view (Fig. 2B): vertex between the eyes as wide as a compound eye's horizontal diameter; fastigium of the vertex triangular, with acute apex; median carina of the vertex inconspicuous; fastigium lowest in the part of median carina, forming depression; occipital area 2× shorter than a compound eye's vertical diameter and granulated. Coloration (Figs 2A-C, 3A): fastigium of the vertex and vertex between the compound eyes dark brown; lateral area between frontal costa and lateral carinae of the vertex dark brown as well; median part of occipital area yellowish, with dark ornamentation; behind the eyes dark brown band with weaker pale brown and yellowish band inside; frons, clypeal triangle and gena pale yellowish; palpi pale; first four antennomeres almost white.
Pronotum. Brachypronotal (because of lack of wings it can be also regarded nanopronotal, organs of flight not visible), reaching abdominal apex. In lateral view (Figs 2C, 3A-B): median carina slightly undulated; prozonal carina visible, short, extralateral carina inconspicuous, visible as a few fine tubercles; ventral sinus absent, covered with infrascapular area; sulci between prozonal and humero-apical carina deep; paranota smooth, with few pits and tubercles, triangularly shaped (in typical way for non-Batrachideinae tetrigids); lateral lobe directed sidewards and truncated in apex; humero-apical carina connected to external lateral carina, which is parallel to median carina; infrascapular area wide, almost as wide as mid femur, with numerous shallow depressions (places where the chitinous layer is thinner, well visible by changing light under stereomicroscope); width of the infrascapular area decreasing towards apex; infrascapular area connected to narrow lateral area; internal lateral carina parallel to external lateral carina; apex of the pronotum directed upwards. In frontal view ( Fig. 2A): shoulders not projected, lateral pronotal lobes directed downwards and sidewards. In dorsal view (Figs 2B, 3C): dorsum rich in fine granules, tubercles and small pits (shallow depressions in chitinous layer, look like holes, light permeable); anterior margin of the pronotum truncated, slightly inverted, prozonal carinae short, visible; angle between humero-apical and external lateral carinae obtusely rounded; median carina not strongly elevated, continuous; interhumeral carina indistinct; small posthumeral spots present; pronotum suddenly narrowed in the apex, its apex acute; lateral lobes with weak triangular ventrolateral projection with bluntly truncated apex, directed outwards and backwards. Coloration: dorsum brown, holes and granules being pale when enlightened; distal part of the disc, around apex, with numerous pale spots; ventral third of paranota with pale yellowish band; two posthumeral yellowish spots present, left rounded, while right triangular, smaller than observed in other Tetrigidae species.
Wings. Flightless species, tegmina and wing not visible, reduced and covered by infrascapular area of pronotum, not functional. (Note: to check if wings are present pronotum needs to be broken. We did not want to break the pronotum since there is only one specimen, the holotype). Sternomentum (Fig. 2C) [= modified prothoracic sternum]. Sternomentum collar-like, necklace shaped, well visible in lateral and ventral view, brown in color, ornamented with numerous yellowish spots of the same shape as pits on pronotal surface. (Figs 2A-B, 3A-D). Fore legs: fore femur approximately rounded in cross-section; dorsal margin carinated, dorsal carina made of fine tubercles, slightly undulated; ventral carina made of fine tubercles too, almost straight; fore femur widened in medial part, narrowed towards proximal and distal connection; distal part of the dorsal margin bearing a blunt tooth; fore tibia robust, slightly longer than fore femur; distal third of the inner margin equipped with four pairs of spines; proximal tarsal segment short, with three rounded pulvilli on its ventral surface; distal tarsal segment longer than the proximal, at its apex with two claws. Mid legs: femur with distinctly carinated dorsal and ventral margins; dorsal and ventral carinae of the mid femur visible in lateral view, not very prominent; dorsal and ventral margins finely tuberculated, slightly undulated to almost straight; mid tibia slightly shorter than the mid femur, robust, with small spines on its inner margin; proximal tarsal segment short, with angular pulvilli on ventral surface; distal segment four times as long as proximal, at its apex with claws. Hind legs: dorsal and ventral margins of hind femora finely granulated, without lappets or projections; genicular and antigenicular teeth small; clearly visible hind femur elongated and reaching slightly below the pronotal apex when extended; external surface finely granulate, with seven transverse ridges in its external surface (or more if short are counted towards the knee); dorso-external and ventro-external carinae of the hind femur without tubercles or projections, smooth, dorsal margin in dorsal view straight; ventral margin and inner ventral margin of the hind femora straight; tibial sulcus (= the depression on the ventral side of the hind femora in which the tibiae are put when the grasshopper is walking) half as wide as hind femora in ventral view; hind tibiae robust, shorter than hind femora with dorsal surface concave, ventral convex, dorsal surface with two rows of spines from its middle to the connection tarsus; inner margin with nine visible spines, outer with seven, on connection of tibia and tarsus there are 6 spines, three on each side; proximal segment of the hind tarsus with acute pulvilli; mid segment short; distal segment as long as proximal, having two claws in its apex. Coloration: fore femur yellowish, with small amount of darker areas in its dorsal part; fore tibia of the same colour as fore femur, with two dark rings, the distal one being broader and darker; proximal segment of fore tarsus dark; one half of the distal segment pale, the other part dark; claws yellowish with dark apex. Mid femur yellowish, with dorsal and distal part being dark and having four dark patches in external surface; mid tibia yellowish, with two dark rings, the distal one being broader and darker; proximal segment of the mid tarsus pale brown; distal segment with two thirds yellowish, apical third dark, claws yellowish with dark apex; ventral external area of the hind femur very dark; median external area lighter brown; dorsal area somewhat darker than median, but lighter than ventral; hind knee yellowish; hind tibia yellowish with brownish patches, not forming dark rings; proximal and mid segment of hind tarsi yellowish, apical part of the distal segment darker, rest of it yellowish; claws light with dark apex.

Legs
Abdomen (Figs 3A,. Subgenital plate bilobate, with deep triangular incision; each lobe triangular with blunt apex; in lateral view subgenital plate with apex directed upwards; cerci short, robust, their basal part swollen and hirsute. Coloration: visible parts of dorsal sternites dark brown, similar to pronotum; upper lateral parts of the sternites light yellowish, from the middle to the connection with sternites orna-mented with dark brown and yellowish patches; epiproct and cerci yellowish; subgenital plate light brown; sternites light brown and each of them ornamented with a pair of thin pale lines, having darker margins outside. Female. Unknown. Measuremens (all in mm). Body length from the tip of the fastigium projection to the end of the abdomen 10.8; fastigium length 1.03; vertical eye diameter 0.96; horizontal eye diameter 0.67; vertex width 0.41; pronotum length 8.12; pronotum lateral lobes maximal width 1.86; infrascapular area length 5.54; fore femur length 1.61; fore femur width 0.62; fore tibia length 1.63; mid femur length 1.99; mid femur width 0.59; mid tibia length 1.48; hind femur length 5.11; hind femur maximal width 1.67; hind tibia length 4.08; proximal hind tarsal segment length 0.51; mid hind tarsal segment length 0.04; distal hind tarsal segment length 0.50.

Taxonomic and biogeographic considerations on Metopomystrum species
Storozhenko's (2016) division of the genus into two genera is not advisable, because it is based mostly on presence or absence of tegmina and wings, so Apteromystrum syn. n. is regarded synonymous with Metopomystrum (Metopomystrum apterum comb. resurr. and Metopomystrum amazoniensis comb. resurr.). Holotype of Miriatra brevifastigiata comb. n. is likely a nymph of Miriatra close to M. producta (see Results-Taxonomic comment on Metopomystrum brevifastigiata). Günther (1939) stated that Metopomystrum was similar to Miriatra Bolivar, 1906. We cannot confirm this statement since Metopomystrum is very different from Miriatra in vertex, pronotum and leg morphology, of slender appearance with weak elevations of pronotal carinae, while Miriatra has robust, Chiriquia-like appearance, with strong and tuberculated carinae and strong lateral lobes of the pronotum. Frontal projection is wide in Metopomystrum, much more similar in form to that in Procytettix Bolívar, 1912;Rhopalotettix Hancock, 1910and Rhynchotettix Hancock, 1907. Miriatra Bolívar, 1906 is unique in having highly laterally compressed median carina of the vertex that is connected to frontal carina, together forming a horn. In pronotal and leg morphology Miriatra is similar to members of Metrodora Bolívar, 1887, Cota Bolívar, 1887, Chiriquia Morse, 1900and Otumba Morse, 1900 Within Miriatrini and Cleostratini, Metopomystrum is the only genus comprising winged and wingless species. The problem of division of genera by the presence or lack of wings is widespread in Tetrigoidea taxonomy (e.g., Bolívar 1887, Storozhenko 2016see Procytettix in Bolívar 1912 andRehn 1937). The species with short pronotum exhibit stronger carination, undulation, and tuberculation of its surface in comparison to species with longer pronotum (e.g., Rehn 1937, Tumbrinck 2014.
Metopomystrum muriciense Silva & Skejo, sp. n. is the only known species of the genus that has small posthumeral spots. Metopomystrum species have very diverse coloration and probably colour varies within a species. A lot of Tetrigidae species are known to have huge colour pattern variation within and among populations (e.g., Nabours 1929). Variation is a result of numerous factors, including genetics, epigenetics (Karlsson et al. 2009), habitat selection and environmental change (Hochkirch et al. 2008, Forsman et al. 2011), mating (Caesar et al. 2007, temperature effects, camouflage and predator avoidance (Ahnesjö and Forsman 2006, Karlsson and Forsman 2010, Tsurui et al. 2010. Information on habitat and distributions are lacking for the majority of species of the family Tetrigidae. Metopomystrum is not exception. This genus was erected by Günther (1939), who described two species (M. pehlkei from Colombia and M. apterum comb. resurr. from Bahia). After almost eight decades without records Cadena-Castañeda and Cardona 2015 described three new species for Colombia, of which two are currently assigned to Metopomystrum (M. lilianae and M. amazoniensis comb. resurr.). The genus is not well documented and remains poorly known, all the species being described from only a few available individuals, and the variability remain-ing completely undocumented. Here we reviewed critically diagnostic characters that unite the reported species and specimens into one taxonomic unit. Even with the new species described herein from Alagoas, knowledge on Metopomystrum remains scarce.
The genus has a large gap in the known distribution between Colombia and Brazil (Fig. 1). Serious studies are needed to assess the complete distribution of these tropical rainforest species, to study them and to protect them because pygmy unicorns exhibit rare and interesting morphological features not seen in other tetrigids. We are sure that more species of this genus exist, but they could not be documented yet due to limited zoological expeditions focusing on pygmy grasshopper collection in their distribution areas. On the other hand, many tetrigids species have been described from the gap area, by several different authors from several different collections (e.g., Serville 1838, Walker 1871, Bolívar 1887, Hancock 1907, Bruner 1910, from northern Brazil (Pará): Amorphopus notabilis Serville, 1838; Metrodora gibbinotus (Bruner, 1910); Metrodora uniformis (Bruner, 1910); Otumba basalis Bruner, 1910 and Paurotarsus ruficornis (Walker, 1871). From Guyana: Eomorphopus granulatus Hancock, 1907;Otumba lobata Hancock, 1907 and from Surinam Otumba concinna (Bolívar, 1887). This can imply that Metopomystrum species occur in not so accessible areas and that they are not among the common species of South America.

Taxonomic comments on genera previously included in Miriatrini and Cleostratini
The group proposed by Cadena-Castañeda and Cardona (2015) and the group proposed by Storozhenko (2016), unifying Miriatrini and Cleostratus into Cleostratini, are not evolutionary units, but artificial groups gathering numerous genera with various morphology of fastigium, head, pronotum, and legs, with the single 'shared' character being the presence of a horn. Here we provide a brief overview of the diversity of horn morphology within Tetrigidae in groups that developed a long fastigium, frontal costa, or scutellum independently.
Africa and islands of the Indian Ocean: members of Rhynchotettix Hancock, 1907 (Madagascar, Metrodorinae) is unique genus in having toothed lateral lobes of the pronotum, directed outwards and forwards. Pseudomitraria has the frontal carina with part of the scutellum forming the horn, in a very unusual way.
Asia and Islands of SE Asia, Wallacea, Papua, and Oceania: Rostella Hancock, 1913 (Asia, Metrodorinae) resembles Pseudomitraria and Metopomystrum in the way the horn is formed in lateral view. However, Rostella, contrary to Metopomystrum, has a wide scutellum and is in pronotal morphology related to Metrodorinae and Scelimeninae (not Scelimenini) of Asia, such as Spadotettix Hancock, 1910;Indomiriatra Tinkham, 1939 andEucriotettix Hebard, 1930. Spadotettix (India, SE Asia, Metrodorinae) does not have a produced vertex, its length usually being less than half of the eye height, as in Tetrix subulata (Linnaeus, 1758), among others. Morphologically, Spadotettix is more similar to Indomiriatra, formerly assigned to Spadotettix. Indomiriatra (India, Metrodorinae) and Spadotettix have a more produced vertex and stronger angles of the lateral lobes of the pronotum. Both genera are similar to certain members of Coptotettix Bolí-var, 1887 (Tetriginae) and Criotettix Bolívar, 1887 (Scelimeninae), in broken median carina (discontinuous, with flattened parts) of the pronotum and with species with or without laterally projecting lobes, varying even within populations of one species Indomiriatra provertex could be regarded as a large species of Spadotettix. Thyrsus Bolívar, 1887 (Oceania) shares with Birmana Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Myanmar) and Clinophaestus Storozhenko, 2013 (Thailand) (last two Tripetalocerinae, Clinophaestini) interesting morphological characters-nymphs of all these genera have flattened antennal segments, the number of antennal segments is eleven, apical ones are reduced, the preapical, medial and sometimes the basal antennomeres are widened, and their hindfemora are very robust. Thyrsus is not related to Miriatrini in any sense, probably neither to Cleostratus. Members of the genus Cleostratus Stål, 1877 are unique in having the frons projecting as a horn, and the bifurcation of the frontal costa being above the compound eyes. Therefore it is left as single genus in Cleostratini since no other species of Tetrigidae exhibit a similar way in which the frons is projecting. Thus, Cleostratini, even monotypic, represent a more logical taxon than to group it with Miriatra.
Rhopalotettix, Pseudomitraria and Spadotettix are good examples that it is possible to find high variability of vertex prolongation among species of the same genus. This character is present in other Tetrigidae groups, like Clinotettix Bey-Bienko, 1933 (Tetriginae), whose members have a longer vertex than members of Spadotettix. Rehn (1938) concluded from examination of Pseudomitraria and Miriatra that the elongation of the fastigium represents a parallel specialization. Taxonomic considerations from Storozhenko (2016) should be re-evaluated. The main advantage of Storozhenko's (2016) monograph on Cleostratini is the amount of drawings, photos and catalogued data on Tetrigidae with a horn, but the main disadvantage is erecting a tribe for such a group and synonymizing Cleostratinae. We leave only Miriatra in Miriatrini, while we leave only Cleostratus in Cleostratini. Other genera remain without tribal placement within Metrodorinae, because solely based on horn morphology (modified fastigium, fastigium and frontal costa, or frontal costa, or frons with scutellum), genera previously unified within Miriatrini are rather diverse. A comprehensive revision is needed with numerous characters (cladistic approach, where comparison is possible among numerous characters in matrix) to provide well-founded basis for taxonomic acts.
We conclude (1) that Cleostratini and Miriatrini stat. ressur. are not synonymous, because Cleostratus and Miriatra belong to morphologically and biogeographically different pygmy grasshopper groups, despite both of them having a horn, (2) that a prolonged horn occurs in different evolutionary groups of pygmy grasshoppers, and (3) that a prolonged horn is not an adequate character useful in Tetrigidae suprageneric taxonomy. 47/2010, Proc. n° 563360/2010-0) and CNPq/ PROTAX (Proc. n° 440664/2015-2) and FAPEMIG APQ-04154-15. We thank Dr. Cristiano Lopes Andrade for microscopic facilities. We are grateful to Dr. Josef Tumbrinck (Germany) who reviewed the paper and gave us valuable comments. Authorization for collection activities for scientific purposes (MMA/ICMBio/SISBIO) n° 37717. Finally, we thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments on the manuscript.