A new species of genus Oxytauchira from India (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
Author
Kumar, Hirdesh
Author
Chandra, Kailash
Author
Saini, Jagdish
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2018
2018-11-14
58
2
495
498
journal article
8149
10.2478/aemnp-2018-0037
cbff96af-9b3d-43ad-9e06-bb066b87b037
1804-6487
4488853
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Genus
Oxytauchira
Ramme, 1941
Oxytauchira
Ramme, 1941: 117
.
Type
species.
Tauchira gracilis
(C.
Willemse, 1931
)
, by monotypy.
Redescription.
Head conical; fastigium of vertex parabolic, about as wide as long, median longitudinal carinula weakly present; frontal ridge sulcate.Antenna about as long as or longer than combined lengths of head and pronotum. Prosternal process transverse, antero-posteriorly flattened, trilobate or bilobate apically. Dorsum of pronotum weakly flattened, median carina weak, lateral carinae absent, shallowly crossed by three transverse sulci; mesosternal interspace longer than wide. Tegmen and hind wing fully developed or abbreviated, without the trace of transverse parallel stridulatory veinlets in the radial area of the tegmen. Lower genicular lobe of hind femur spined; hind tibia hardly expanded apically, external apical spine of hind tibia present. Male 10th tergite with furculae on postero-dorsal margin (
HOLLIS 1975
).
Composition.
There are nine species in the genus
Oxytauchira
, namely
O. aspinosa
Ingrisch, 1989
from
Thailand
,
O. aurora
(
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
)
from
Myanmar
,
O. bilobata
Ingrisch, 1989
from
Thailand
,
O. brachyptera
Zheng, 1981
from
China
(
Yunnan
),
O. elegans
F.
Willemse, 1965
from
Indonesia
(
Java
),
O. gracilis
(C.
Willemse, 1931
)
from
Indonesia
(
Sulawesi
),
O. jaintia
Ingrisch, F. Willemse & Shishodia, 2004
from
India
(
Meghalaya
),
O. oxyelegans
Otte, 1995
(=
O. elegans
Zheng & Liang, 1986
) from
China
(
Yunnan
) (
BRUNNER VON WATTENWYL 1893
, C.
WILLEMSE 1931
, F.
WILLEMSE 1965
,
ZHENG 1981
,
ZHENG & LIANG 1986
,
INGRISCH 1989
,
OTTE 1995
,
INGRISCH et al. 2004
), and the new species described in present paper. A key to species of
Oxytauchira
is given below.