Nippancistroger Griffini, 1919

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15. Nippancistroger Griffini, 1919 (瀛蟋•属)

Neanias (Nippancistroger) : Griffini, 1913b. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 51: 241; Griffini, 1914d. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, 33: 238.

Nippancistroger: Karny, 1929b . Lingnan Science Journal, 7: 743; Tinkham, 1936. Lingnan Science Journal, 15(3): 408; Karny, 1937. Genera Insectorum 206: 142; Jin & Xia, Journal of Orthoptera Research, 1997: 17 ; Otte, 2000. Orthoptera Species File 8: Gryllacrididae , Stenopelmatidae , Cooloolidae , Schizodactylidae , Anastostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae : 25; Ichikawa, 2001. Tettigonia , 3: 71; Kim & Kim, 2002. Korean Journal of Entomology, 32(3): 142; Storozhenko & Paik, 2003. Far Eastern Entomologist 123: 8; Storozhenko & Paik, 2007. Orthoptera of Korea: 88; Liu, Bi & Zhang, 2010 a. Orthoptera : Stenopelmatoidea . In: Xu & Ye. (Eds.) Insects of Fengyangshan National Nature Rreserve: 64; Kim et al., 2014. Zootaxa, 3900(1): 100; Storozhenko, Kim & Jeon, 2015. Monograph of Korean Orthoptera : 8; Cadena-Castañeda, 2019. Zootaxa, 4605(1): 80.

Type species: Nippancistroger testaceus ( Matsumura & Shiraki, 1908) .

Diagnosis. Body small for the subfamily, form robust, tegmina and hind wings absent. Face smooth. Head with fastigium verticis broad. Hind tibiae with 1 large spine in middlle and 1–2 small spines on basal or apical area on internal margin and 4–7 small spines on external margin. Male ninth abdominal tergite widely rounded, with 1 pair of widely spaced lateral hooks, its apices sharp, directing outward; subgenital plate with very small styli. Female seventh abdominal sternite with 1 pair of small copulatory depressions.

Species included. The genus includes 4 species in total. Two known species are reported for the Chinese fauna.