Ornebius exserolimbus Wang & Ma, sp. nov., a new species of Ornebius (Orthoptera: Mogoplistidae; Mogoplistinae) from China
Author
Wang, Ning
College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China, 710119
Author
Che, Zhi-Yong
Tiaobahe Station of Mengyang Management and Protection Institution, Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve, Jinghong, China, 666106
Author
Ma, Li-Bin
College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China, 710119
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-10-06
5353
1
75
81
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5353.1.5
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5353.1.5
1175-5326
8426861
885C6296-D212-48D1-8E95-B15ECEC3CB8F
Genus
Ornebius
Guérin-Méneville, 1844
Ornebius
Guérin-Méneville, 1844: 331
.
Type
species:
Orenbius xanthopterus
Guérin-Méneville, 1844
Diagnosis.
Ornebius
is the most diverse genus in the Mogoplistinae, with 130 extant species (subspecies), distributed over South and Central America, Africa, South and
East Asia
,
Australia
,
India
, and the Pacific Ocean Islands (Otte
et al.
, 2005). Distinguished from other genera by the following characters: anterior tibia with internal tympanum; females apterous, males with wings reduced, stridulatory apparatus and pronotum extended posteriorly to cover the base of the mirror.
Species group
alii
Bhowmik, 1970
Species group
alii
,
He
et al.
, 2021: 74
Type
species:
Ornebius alii
Bhowmik, 1970
Diagnosis.
This species group differs from the other species groups mainly in that the genitalia consists of an inner phallus and external sclerites. The basal lamellar end of the phallus contracted into a tube; outer sclerites basally located at the lower edge of the phallus, medially curved and bifurcated into two flaps overlying the upper of the phallus.