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The Families Stenopelmatidae and Anostostomatidae (Orthoptera). 1. Higher Classification, New and Little Known Taxa

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The family Stenopelmatidae is divided here only into 3 subfamilies: Stenopelmatinae with 4 or 5 tribes (Stenopelmatini; Siini stat. resurr.; Maxentiini trib. n.; Oryctopterini trib. resurr. and possibly Oryctopini); Schizodactylinae (= Comicinae Ander, 1939, syn. n.) not divided into tribes, and Gryllacridinae (= Hyperbaeninae Cadena-Castañeda, 2019, syn. n.) with a problematic tribal composition. The following new taxa are described: Sia bugajus sp. n.; Amaxentius subgen. n. and Eumaxentius subgen. n. in the genus Maxentius Stål, 1876, stat. resurr.; Comicus orangensis sp. n.; C. myburghi sp. n.; C. namibicus sp. n. The genera Oryctopterus Karny, 1937, gen. resurr. and Brauckmannia Martins-Neto, 2007, gen. resurr. are restored from synonymy with Oryctopus Brunner-Wattenwyl, 1888 and Schizodactylus Brullé, 1835, respectively. The family Anostostomatidae includes only 2 subfamilies: Anostostomatinae with 9 tribes (Anostostomatini; Anabropsini; Lutosini; Cratomelini stat. n.; Brachyporini; Deinacridini stat. n.; Cooloolini stat. n.; Leiomelini stat. n., and Glaphyrosomatini) and possibly Lezininae not divided into tribes. The genus Anabropsis Rehn, 1901 is considered as consisting of 5 subgenera: Anabropsis s. str.; Paterdecolyus Griffini, 1913, stat. n.; Pteranabropsis Gorochov, 1988, stat. n. (= Brevipenna Shi et Bian, 2016, syn. n.); Apteranabropsis Gorochov, 1988, stat. n.; and Carnabropsis subgen. n. New combinations for 20 species of this genus are formed, and the following new species and subspecies are described: Anabropsis (Pteranabropsis) intermedia sp. n.; A. (P.) falcata pallescens subsp. n.; A. (Apteranabropsis) ailaoshanica sp. n.; A. (A.) maculata sp. n.; A. (A.) tarasovi sp. n.; A. (A.) abramovi sp. n.; A. (A.) abramovi namlikensis subsp. n. The previously unknown male of Anabropsis (Apteranabropsis) minuta (Gorochov, 2001) and the female of A. (A.) sinica Bey-Bienko, 1962 are described. Proctovitettix subgen. n. in the genus Glaphyrosoma Brunner-Wattenwyl, 1888, as well as Spinolezina gen. n. for S. obscura (Burr, 1900), comb. n. from Lezininae, are also described; the genus Gryllacropsis Brunner-Wattenwyl, 1888 is tentatively included in the latter subfamily. Keys to several taxa and new data on the distribution of some species are given.

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The author is grateful to the colleagues for granting their collections from Vietnam, China, and Laos to the ZIN collection and to all the foreign ortopterologists for sending the literature necessary for the study. I also thank M.V. Berezin (Moscow Zoo) for the photographs taken by him in nature and made available to me for publication.

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Gorochov, A.V. The Families Stenopelmatidae and Anostostomatidae (Orthoptera). 1. Higher Classification, New and Little Known Taxa. Entmol. Rev. 100, 1106–1151 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873820080084

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