Gibbotettix Zheng, 1992

Deng, Wei-An, Zheng, Zhe-Min & Wei, Shi-Zhen, 2016, Two new species of the genus Gibbotettix Zheng, 1992 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae, Cladonotinae) from China, Zootaxa 4200 (3), pp. 426-436 : 427

Key to the genera closely related to Gibbotettix Zheng, 1992

The following identification key is based upon the key of Blackith (1992) and Jiang & Zheng (1998).

1. No evidence of shoulders, pronotum quite smooth............................................................2

- Shoulders laterally rounded or with bluntly angled processes clearly patterned; shoulder region level, broadened; pronotum with numerous tubercles and concavities...................................................................4

2. Vertex, seen from above, broadened towards the front, or at least produced in front of the eyes as an evenly broad, distinctly blunt, triangular, or rounded process. Distribution in Vietnam, Borneo, New Guinea and China...... Epitettix Hancock, 1907

- Vertex, seen from above, narrowing towards the front, not a blunt or clearly rounded process produced before the eyes..... 3

3. Widest interval between the lateral carenae below the eyes not broader than the antennal bases. Distribution in Congo, Cameroon.............................................................................. .. Hippodes Karsch, 1890

- Widest interval between the lateral carenae below the eyes clearly broader than the antennal bases. Distribution in New Guinea............................................................................ Pseudohyboella Günther, 1938

4. Anterior margin of pronotum distinctly produced over the head, if not, then the anterior half of pronotum prominent, humpbacklike, posterioir half flat.......................................................... Gibbotettix Zheng, 1992

- Anterior margin of pronotum usually truncate or obtuse angulate, not produced over the head; median carina lower or only elevated before shoulder......................................................... Austrohancockia Günther, 1938