New species of flightless katydids from South Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae)
Author
Naskrecki, Piotr
Invertebrate Diversity Initiative, CABS, Conservation International Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. E-mail: p. naskrecki @ conservation. org JS Marais Building, Victoria St., Stellenbosch 7602, South Africa. E-mail: coreybaz @ gmail. com 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 - 8520, USA. E-mail: spearman @ eden. rutgers. edu
Author
Bazelet, Corinna S.
Author
Spearman, Lauren A.
text
Zootaxa
2008
2008-11-14
1933
1
19
32
https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1933.1.3
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.1933.1.3
11755334
5230922
Key to known species of
Amyttacta
(males)
1. Macropterous, wings extending well past the tip of the abdomen...............................................................2
- Brachypterous, wings completely hidden under the pronotum...................................................................3
2. Tenth abdominal tergite with a pair of elongated median lobes; cercus straight
...........
A. angolensis
Beier
- Tenth abdominal tergite without a pair of median lobes; cercus slightly bent inwards
...
A. rhodesica
Beier
3. Cercus bent downwards when seen from the side (
Fig. 1D
), its basal part with a small, hook-like lobe (
Fig. 1E
)
...............................................................................................................................
A. farrelli
n. sp.
- Cercus straight when seen from the side (
Fig. 1L
), its basal part with a multi-lobed projection at the base (
Fig. 1J
)
......................................................................................................................
A. marakelensis
n. sp.