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Oxytauchira Ramme 1941

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Genus Oxytauchira Ramme, 1941

Oxytauchira Ramme, 1941: 117.

Type species. Tauchira gracilis (C. Willemse, 1931), by monotypy.

Redescription. Head conical; fastigium of vertex parabolic, about as wide as long, median longitudinal carinula weakly present; frontal ridge sulcate.Antenna about as long as or longer than combined lengths of head and pronotum. Prosternal process transverse, antero-posteriorly flattened, trilobate or bilobate apically. Dorsum of pronotum weakly flattened, median carina weak, lateral carinae absent, shallowly crossed by three transverse sulci; mesosternal interspace longer than wide. Tegmen and hind wing fully developed or abbreviated, without the trace of transverse parallel stridulatory veinlets in the radial area of the tegmen. Lower genicular lobe of hind femur spined; hind tibia hardly expanded apically, external apical spine of hind tibia present. Male 10th tergite with furculae on postero-dorsal margin (HOLLIS 1975).

Composition. There are nine species in the genus Oxytauchira, namely O. aspinosa Ingrisch, 1989 from Thailand, O. aurora (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893) from Myanmar, O. bilobata Ingrisch, 1989 from Thailand, O. brachyptera Zheng, 1981 from China (Yunnan), O. elegans F. Willemse, 1965 from Indonesia (Java), O. gracilis (C. Willemse, 1931) from Indonesia (Sulawesi), O. jaintia Ingrisch, F. Willemse & Shishodia, 2004 from India (Meghalaya), O. oxyelegans Otte, 1995 (= O. elegans Zheng & Liang, 1986) from China (Yunnan) (BRUNNER VON WATTENWYL 1893, C. WILLEMSE 1931, F. WILLEMSE 1965, ZHENG 1981, ZHENG & LIANG 1986, INGRISCH 1989, OTTE 1995, INGRISCH et al. 2004), and the new species described in present paper. A key to species of Oxytauchira is given below.

Notes

Published as part of Kumar, Hirdesh, Chandra, Kailash & Saini, Jagdish, 2018, A new species of genus Oxytauchira from India (Orthoptera: Acrididae), pp. 495-498 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (2) on pages 495-496, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0037, http://zenodo.org/record/4488853

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Biodiversity

Family
Baissogryllidae
Genus
Oxytauchira
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Ramme
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Oxytauchira Ramme, 1941 sec. Kumar, Chandra & Saini, 2018

References

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  • WILLEMSE C. 1931: Orthoptera Celebica Sarasiniana. Treubia 12 (Suppl.): 189 - 273.
  • HOLLIS D. 1975: A review of the subfamily Oxyinae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 31: 189 - 234.
  • INGRISCH S. 1989: Records, descriptions, and revisionary studies of Acrididae from Thailand and adjacent regions (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Spixiana 11: 205 - 242.
  • BRUNNER VON WATTENWYL C. 1893: Revision du systeme des Orthopteres et description des especes rapportees par M. Leonardo Fea de Birmanie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 2 (33): 1 - 230.
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  • ZHENG Z. & LIANG L. 1986: New species of grasshopper from Yunnan and Guizhou. Acta Entomologica Sinica 29: 291 - 294 (in Chinese with English summary).
  • INGRISCH S., WILLEMSE F. & SHISHODIA M. S. 2004: New species and interesting records of Acrididae (Orthoptera) from Northeast India. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 147: 289 - 320.