Hilethera Uvarov, 1923

Dong, Jiajia, Chen, Zhenning, Wang, Qingqing, Guan, Delong, Xu, Shengquan & Robillard, Tony, 2019, A new species of the genus Hilethera Uvarov, 1923 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae) from China and its complete mitochondrial genome, Zootaxa 4564 (2), pp. 514-530 : 515

Genus Hilethera Uvarov, 1923

Lerina Bolívar, 1902: 602 ; Uvarov, 1922: 727; Kirby, 1910: 219; 1914: 138 (name preoccupied replaced by Lerinnia ).

Lerinnia Uvarov, 1940: 176 (nomen novum to Lerina ); Johnston, 1956: 50; Dirsh. 1958: 56 (synonym of Hilethera ).

Hilethera Uvarov, 1923: 82 ; 1925: 33; B.- Bienko & Mistshenko, 1951: 570; Dirsh, 1958: 56; Dirsh, 1965: 398; Zheng, 1993: 442; Yin et al., 1996: 332; Zheng & Xia, 1998: 116; Zheng & Lu, 2002: 16; Bughio et al., 2012.

Type species: Hilethera hierichonica Uvarov, 1923 .

Diagnosis. Size medium to small among the subfamily Oedipodinae with compressed black spots. Head shorter than pronotum. Vertex wide and short. Face slightly sloping backward. Fastigium of vertex protruded and flat, lacking median keel. Eyes large and oval shaped. Foveolae distinctly triangular. Antennae slender, filiform. Median keel of pronotum depressed and thin, cut only by posterior transverse sulcus located above the middle of pronotum, while lateral keel weak or nearly absent in the metazona; posterior margin of pronotum right-angled or obtusely angulate. Interspace of mesosternal lobes wide. Tegmina and hind wings well developed, surpassing apex of hind femora. Median intercalary vein of forewings approaching to median vein or between median vein and cubitus, without cross veins before median intercalary vein; cubital area wider than medial area, with or without intercalary vein. Median vein and precubitus of hing wings close, without dark transverse stripe. Hind femora short and thick, mostly dark in the inner side. Hind tibiae distinctly shorter than hid formora. Aroliums between claws of tarsus small. Subgenital plate of male short, conical.

Distribution. Central and western Asia, Africa.