Paraluzaropsis, Meena & Swaminathan & Nagar, 2020

Meena, Ashok Kumar, Swaminathan, Rajamani & Nagar, Rajendra, 2020, Revision in the generic name of the cricket, Luzaropsis mjobergi Chopard, 1926 of tribe Luzaropsini (Phalangopsidae: Phalangopsinae), Zootaxa 4869 (3), pp. 413-420 : 414-415

Genus Paraluzaropsis gen. nov.

Type species Paraluzaropsis mjobergi (Chopard, 1926)

Paraluzaropsis gen. nov. Meena, Swaminathan & Gorochov

Diagnosis: Body of medium size, dark brown in colour with long dark brown hair and smaller yellowish hair; head globular, small, transverse (wider than long); distinctly ornamented with 4 yellow triangular markings joined at the vertex analogous to the 4-cups of an anemometer; face brown in colour with six yellow spots; last segment of the maxillary palpi securiform; antennae brown, interspaced with yellow bands; pronotum transverse, wider than long with hairs; metanotal glands present and glandular hairs wanting; tegmina short in both sexes, reaching beyond the 3 rd abdominal tergite, overlap strongly, rounded at the apex; stridulatory apparatus present; hindwings absent in both the sexes; the legs are brown with hair; fore tibiae posses oval shaped internal tympanum, while the external tympanum is absent; a special feature of this genus includes two small tympanum-like (eardrums) on the internal side of fore femur of both sexes that are of almost equal size and shape; hind femur thicker and longer than hind tibiae; base of the tarsal segments have yellowish stripes on all legs.

Male genitalia of this genus has a triangularly shaped subgenital plate with an almost acute apex; significantly differing from other genera of the tribe Luzaropsini in having the guiding rod of the epiphallus much longer, extending beyond the distal part of the epiphallus with its apical part shaped like an arrow. Morphologically, the female genitalia look similar to the females of the genus, Luzaropsis ; supra anal plate is almost the same as in the male, but with very few hairs; subgenital plate is wider than long with a postero-median notch; ovipositor is longer than femur and tibiae of hind leg; the dorsal valves with a distinct dorsal notch and pointed spine; a ventral concavity before apex and also present a row of hairs; the copulatory papilla is ovoid, almost egg shaped.