Criotettix Bolivar

Wei, Shizhen, Zheng, Zhemin & Deng, Weian, 2007, A review of the genus Criotettix Bolivar (Orthoptera: Scelimenidae) from China, Zootaxa 1423, pp. 39-49 : 39-40

Genus Criotettix Bolivar

Criotettix Bolivar, 1887 , Ann. Soc. Ent. Belgique, 31: 222.

Acanthalobus Hancock, 1904 , Spolia Zeylanica, 2: 131.

Acanthalobus Hancock ; Kirby, 1914, Fauna Brit, Ind., Orthopter, p.36.

Criotettix Bolivar ; Gunther, 1938, Stett. Ent. Zeitg., 99: 131.

Criotettix Bolivar ; Yin, 1984, Grasshoppers and Locusts from Qinghai-Xizang Plateau of China, 11. Criotettix Bolivar ; Shishodia, 1991. Rec. Zool. Survey India, Occ. Papers, 35–38. Criotettix Bolivar ; Jiang and Zheng, 1998, Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi, 290. Criotettix Bolivar ; Liang and Zheng, 1998, Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol. 12, Orth. Tetrigoidea, 78. Criotettix Bolivar ; Zheng, 2005, Fauna of the Tetrigoidea of the western part of China, 78–79. Type species: Criotettix bispppinosus (Dalman, 1818)

Body moderate-sized or small, slender. Head not exserted, vertex generally as broad as or wider than an eye, narrowed in front, extends upto the level of eyes in front, depressed on either side, median carinula distinct anteriorly, lateral carinula elevated on the level of eyes and reflexed laterally in front, frontal costa bifurcate

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Pronotum transverse anteriorly, subulate posteriorly, extends beyond the apices of posterior femora, dorsum finely granulated, sometimes sparingly tuberculose, nearly flat, midkeel completed or interrupted, lateral keels interrupted on the sulci in front of shoulders, low behind, prozonal lateral keels distinct and parallel or convergent behind, abbreviated short keels present or not, paranota with two projections, posterior angles of lateral lobes of pronotum acute, straight or directed backwards or without distinct lateral spine. Tegmina elongated, rounded at apex. Wings as along as or shorter than pronotum. Anterior and middle femora elongated, margins finely serrulated, posterior tibiae normal at apex, first segment of posterior tarsi longer than the third, third pulvillus longer than first and second pulvilli or all the pulvilli equal in length.