Amusurgus Brunner

He, Zhuqing, Li, Kai, Fang, Yan & Liu, Xianwei, 2010, A taxonomic study of the genus Amusurgus Brunner von Wattenwyl from China (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Trigonidiinae), Zootaxa 2423, pp. 55-62 : 55

Amusurgus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

Amusurgus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova Ser. 2 (13)33: 212; Kirby, 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera ( Orthoptera Saltatoria , Locustidae vel Acridiidae ) 2: 83; Chopard, 1968. In Beier [Ed.]. Orthopterorum Catalogus 12: 330; Chopard, 1969. In Sewell [Ed.]. The Fauna of India and the Adjacent Countries 2: 289; Otte, 1994. Orthoptera Species File 1: 37; Yin & Liu, 1995. Synopsis on the classification of Grylloidea and Gryllotalpoidea from China: 30 (English p. 185).

Type species: Amusurgus fulvus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

Body small, slender. Vertex convex, eyes mostly vertically lengthened, 5th joint of maxillary palpi widen. Anterior tibiae with or without tympana. Tegmen with pubescence; in the male, tegmen sometimes with defined stridulating veins and the anal field, the veins of dorsal field are more or less oblique. Wings developed or short.

Amusurgus species are similar to Metiochodes Chopard,1932 , but the veins on the male’s tegmen are oblique while the ones of Metiochodes are parallel.