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Orthelimaea Karny 1926

Description

Key to Known Indian species of Orthelimaea Karny, 1926

(Reworked from Ingrisch, 1990)

1. Lobes of male subgenital plate almost parallel (Ingrisch, 1990: Figs. 23, 24; Text Fig. 1D)........................... 3

- Lobes of male subgenital plate widely separated in the middle (Ingrisch & Shishodia, 1998: Figs. 3, 4; Ingrisch, 1990: Fig. 25)................................................................................................. 2

2. Male cercus with apical part narrow acute (Ingrisch & Shishodia, 1998: Fig. 1); subgenital plate with the apical lobes less strongly diverging in middle and the basal area wider (Ingrisch & Shishodia, 1998: Figs. 3, 4)........................................................................................... O. carispina (Ingrisch & Shishodia, 1998)

- Male cercus with apical part broad and truncate (Ingrisch, 1990: Fig. 22); subgenital plate with the apical lobes strongly diverging in middle and the basal area narrower (Ingrisch, 1990: Fig. 25).......... O. securigera (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878)

3. Male cerci with apex excavated, dorsal apex with a long, pointed appendage (Ingrisch, 1990: Figs. 18, 19).............................................................................................. O. insignis (Walker, 1869)

- Male cerci with apex slightly excavated, dorsal apex with a tooth (Ingrisch, 1990: Figs. 20, 21; Text Fig. 1D)....................................................................................... O. himalayana (Ingrisch, 1990)

Notes

Published as part of Kumar, Hirdesh & Chandra, Kailash, 2020, First record of Orthelimaea himalayana (Ingrisch, 1990) (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Elimaeini) from India with description of its female, pp. 443-446 in Zootaxa 4743 (3) on pages 443-444, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4743.3.13, http://zenodo.org/record/3688227

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Phaneropteridae
Genus
Orthelimaea
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Karny
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Orthelimaea Karny, 1926 sec. Kumar & Chandra, 2020

References

  • Karny, H. (1926) Beitrage zur malayischen Orthopterenfauna XIII. Die Scaphurinen des Buitenzorger Museums. Treubia, 9, 12 - 151.
  • Ingrisch, S. (1990) Grylloptera and Orthoptera s. str. from Nepal and Darjeeling in the Zoologische Staatssammlung Munchen. Spixiana, Munich, 13, 149 - 182.
  • Ingrisch, S. & Shishodia, M. S. (1998) New species and records of Tettigoniidae from India (Ensifera). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 71, 3 - 4 + 355 - 371.
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1878) Monographie der Phaneropteriden. Harvard University, F. A. Brockhaus, Wien, 401 pp., 8 pls.
  • Walker, F. (1869) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum, 2, 225 - 423.