Taxonomic study of the cricket genus Valiatrella Gorochov (Gryllidae, Podoscirtinae) from China Author Libin, Ma Author Yalin, Zhang text Zootaxa 2013 3669 4 522 530 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3669.4.6 8011c77b-7676-4743-9d29-2c3b99f898f3 1175-5326 220304 4887606D-C41D-4C12-9055-042BA92C8734 Genus Valiatrella Gorochov Valiatrella Gorochov 2005 : 181 ; Liu & Shi 2007 : 281 –282 Valia Gorochov 1985 : 20 , 2002: 331 , 2005: 181, homonymized by Gorochov 2005 : 202 Type species: Valia pulchra Gorochov Body size medium and dorso-ventrally flattened. Head small and wider than long. Vertex conspicuously separated from rostrum. Clypeo-frontal sulcus straight. Median ocellus depressed, and lateral ocelli carinate. Eyes more broad than long, slightly convex anteriorly. Antennal scape shield-like, large and wide, wider than rostrum. Pronotum narrowed at anterior margin; both fore and hind margins of disc almost straight; portion between disc and lateral lobes angulate. Mirror wider than long and the apical field of forewings elongate. Hind wings short, surface pubescent. Fore tibiae swollen, inner tympanum slit-like, outer tympanum larger and rectangular. Entire hind tibiae armed with spines; apical portion of armed with five paired dorsal spurs and six ventral apical spurs. Inner margin of claw armed with small teeth. Male supra-anal plate more or less bifurcated. Male genitalia: epiphallus armed with small upper acute hooks, lower hooks pubescent (including a tuft of long setae) in the middle and bearings a pair of larger lateral lobes.