A new species of Arnobia (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae: Phaneropterinae) from Sakaerat, Thailand
Author
Tan, Ming Kai
Author
Artchawakom, Taksin
text
Zootaxa
2014
3857
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131
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3857.1.7
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1175-5326
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Genus
Arnobia
Stål, 1876
Type
species:
Arnobia pilipes
(Haan, 1842)
Diagnosis.
Medium-sized katydid, mostly green throughout when alive with dorsal part of tegmen dark brown or black. This genus is very similar in habitus to
Stictophaula
Hebard, 1922
but differs by the presence of small median emargination along the posterior margin of dorsal plate of pronotum; presence of large dark basal spot on the dorsal part of female tegmen (instead of small spot in
Stictophaula
); male subgenital plate with less than 3 very short lobes along apical margin (instead of 2 to 4 lobes, with 1 pair of long lateral lobes and 1 pair of shorter median lobes in
Stictophaula
); absence of unpaired sclerites of the male genitalia (
Gorochov, 1998
;
Gorochov & Voltshenkova, 2009
).
Remarks.
Six species (one of which contains two subspecies) are currently known:
Arnobia guangxiensis
Liu, 2011
,
Arnobia hainanensis
Liu, 2011
,
Arnobia inocellata
Gorochov, 1998
,
Arnobia pilipes pilipes
(Haan, 1842)
,
Arnobia pilipes tropica
Gorochov, 1998
,
Arnobia trichopus
(Haan, 1842)
,
Arnobia vietensis
Gorochov, 1998
(
Eades
et al.
, 2014
)
. Key to currently known species (excluding new species described here) is available in
Liu (2011)
.