Cyrtopsis Bey-Bienko, 1962

Cyrtopsis: Bey-Bienko, 1962, Trudy Onst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 30, 132; Beier, 1966, Orthopterorum Catalogus, 9, 281; Liu & Jin, 1994, Contr. Shanghai Inst. Entomol., 11, 109; Jin & Xia, 1994, Jour. Orth. Res., 3, 26; Otte, 1997, Orthoptera Species File 7, 96; Gorochov, 1998, Zoosystematica Rossica, 7(1), 120; Liu & Zhang, 2007, Entomotaxonomia, 29 (2), 85. Type species: Cyrtopsis scutigera Bey-Bienko, 1962

Size medium to large of tribe Meconematini, quite robust, brachypterous. Metazona of male elevated somewhat, terminal area down curved, hind margin of paranota oblique but gently convex; auditory foramina of thorax entirely exposed; each femur unarmed, both tympana of fore tibiae open, each genicular lobe of hind femur usually bearing an apical spine, rarely variable, hind tibiae with 2 paired apical spurs; acoustical opening fully exposed; tegmina largely covered by metazona, with stridulating organ in male. 10th abdominal tergite of male bearing unpaired process, but middle with a deep sulcus; titillator completely sclerotized but concealed between terminal tergite and subgenital plate, can be observed in posterior view; subgenital plate of female small, globularly swelled, ovipositor short and rigid, margins smooth, without apical hook.