A short taxonomic note on the katydids from the genus Cercoteratura Gorochov, 2019 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), with a key to species
Author
Tan, Ming Kai
Author
Wahab, Rodzay Bin Haji Abdul
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-03-13
4750
4
591
595
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4750.4.10
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Tribe
Meconematini
Cercoteratura
Gorochov, 2019
Cercoteratura
—
Gorochov, 2019: 18
> original description of genus
Type
species.
Cercoteratura variegata
Gorochov
, by original designation
Included species.
Cercoteratura? abbreviata
(Karny, 1924) from Sumatra
Cercoteratura mirabilis
(Tan & Wahab, 2018)
comb. nov.
from Borneo
Cercoteratura modesta
Gorochov, 2019
from north Sumatra
Cercoteratura spinicauda
(Sänger & Helfert, 1998)
from Thai-Peninsula
Cercoteratura variegata
Gorochov, 2019
from north Sumatra (and Borneo—doubtful, see Discussion)
Distribution.
Sumatra, Thai-Peninsula and Borneo (
Fig. 1
)
Comparison with other
Meconematini
.
Males of
Cercoteratura
differ from other genera of
Meconematini
by characteristic shape of epiproct and shape of cercus (
Gorochov, 2019
). It is similar to
Kuzicus
and
Xiphidiopsis
but differ by the following characters (
Table 1
).