Taxonomy on three allied genera within Arcypterini (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, China
Author
Mao, Ben-Yong
Author
Huang, Zhi-Pang
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2023-02-09
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5239.2.5
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5239.2.5
1175-5326
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genus
Asulconotoides
Liu, 1984
http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1105265
Liu, 1984: 437
;
Yin, Shi & Yin, 1996: 76
;
Zheng & Xia, 1998: 293
, 574;
Type
species:
Asulconotoides sichuanensis
Liu, 1984
, by monotypy and original designation.
Diagnosis.
Size small. Head shorter than pronotum; fastigium triangular, dorsum weakly depressed with median carina; fastigial foveolae absent; antennae stubby. Pronotum with anterior margin straight, posterior margin nearly straight with a small notch in middle; median and lateral carinae distinct, lateral carinae faintly incurved; hind transverse sulcus absent or obsolete. Prosternum between front legs flat; metasterum with lateral lobes separated from each other. Tegmen abbreviated in male, touching each other in mid dorsal line, apex rounded; narrow scalelike in female, lateral. Tympanum developed. The stridulatory pegs on the internal side of hind femur present. Male 10
th
abdominal tergite with or without furcula. Epiproct triangular. Cerci long conical. Subgenital plate conical. Valves of ovipositor narrow, with or without teeth along margins.
Composition and distribution:
A single species,
Asulconotoides sichuanensis
Liu, 1984
was originally assigned to the genus
Asulconotoides
. In this paper two species are transfer to
Asulonotoides
, i.e.
Asulconotoides asulcata
(
Zheng, 1988
)
comb. nov.
=
Leuconemacris asulcata
Zheng, 1988
and
Asulconotoides microptera
(
Zheng, 1988
)
,
comb. nov.
=
Leuconemacris microptera
Zheng, 1988
, owing to lack of hind transverse sulcus on dorsum of pronotum. Thus, there are currently three species in this genus, mainly distributed in western
Sichuan
,
China
.