Tuberfemurus Zheng, 1992

Wang, Meng-Qi, Deng, Yao, Guan, De-Long, Mao, Ben-Yong & Li, Miao, 2021, A new species of the genus Tuberfemurus (Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea: Cladonotinae) with comments on the characters of mitochondrial genome, Zootaxa 5071 (3), pp. 437-446 : 439

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5071.3.9
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:007D73BE-6F15-4124-A3F5-E258A18DB7DA
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5723656
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scientific name	Tuberfemurus Zheng, 1992
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Genus Tuberfemurus Zheng, 1992 View in CoL

Tuberfemurus Zheng, 1992: 84 View in CoL ; Liang & Zheng, 1998: 30–31; Zheng, 2005: 25; Deng et al., 2009: 211; Storozhenko & Dawwrueng, 2014: 331 View Cited Treatment ; Deng, 2016: 21; Deng & Lu, 2019: 136 View Cited Treatment ; Deng, 2020: 433 View Cited Treatment .

Type species: Tuberfemurus laminatus Zheng, 1992 .

Diagnosis. Deng & Lu (2019) provided a detailed redescription of the genus. The genus Tuberfemurus can be easily recognized from other genera within Cladonotinae by: 1) median carina of pronotum strongly elevated and lamellate, in profile arch-like; 2) hind femur with upper and lower carinae gently serrate, lower outer carinae with 2–3 projections, upper side with a series of thick tubercles; 3) tegmen and alae absent.

Distribution. The genus Tuberfemurus now contains six species (including the new species), which are distributed in Oriental region, five species in China and one in Thailand.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Orthoptera
SuperFamily	Tetrigoidea
Family	Tetrigidae
SubFamily	Cladonotinae