Descriptions saltans subgroup

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General description of male terminalia. The epandrium, cerci and surstyli are very similar among species. The dorso-ventral portion of the epandrium is angular. The epandrium is covered with short and long epandrial bristles. The cercus displays a U-shaped contour, and it is covered with cercal bristles. The middle ventral border of the epandrium has a pair of prolongations, named epandrial extension, which extend below each surstylus. The surstyli exhibit a semi-elliptical shape. The surstyli have thorn-like bristles, named surstylar teeth. These structures can range from 20 to 25 and are irregularly arranged throughout the internal portion of each surstylus. Beyond these, the surstyli display each 5-6 primary teeth that are arranged in a row on the lower edge, and they also present a tuft of long bristles, named surstylar long bristles. These species present an aedeagal sheath (aedeagus cape). This structure dorsally surrounds the aedeagus and it is extremely sclerotized. The phallus displays a pair of ventral postgonites (ventral prolongation), which extend from where the aedeagus intersects with the phallapodeme and a pair of aedeagal ventral processes, which are in parallel and on the side of the aedeagus. The phallapodeme is long.