Deflorita Bolívar, 1906

Ingrisch, Sigfrid, 2011, New taxa of Mirolliini from South East Asia and evidence for an abdominal gland in male Phaneropterinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), Zootaxa 2943, pp. 1-44 : 3

Deflorita Bolívar, 1906

Exora Brunner von Wattenwyl 1878, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 28: 105 (preoccupied) Deflorita Bolívar 1906 , Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 6: 392 (replacement name) Type species: Exora deflorita Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878

History: 14 species were so far included in the genus ( Eades et al. 2011), three of them described until 1930 (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1878, Karny 1926, Shiraki, 1930), and 11 since 1998 (Ingrisch 1998, Gorochov 2004, 2008, Shi & Chang 2004). One species is removed from Hueikaeana and rearranged with Deflorita in the current publication and two species are described as new.

Diagnosis. Characterised by the colourful appearance, the tegmen widened in basal half, rather narrow in apical half. The fastigium verticis is moderately sloping anteriorly. The male stridulatory area is strongly varying between species, often shortened. Phallus sclerites are absent.

Description. Fastigium verticis in typical forms moderately sloping anteriorly. Head, pronotum and abdomen often but not always with striking ivory-white marks. Disc of pronotum broadly rounded into paranota; only in apical area and in some species along anterior margin flattened. Tegmen rather narrow to moderately widened; costal area of tegmen in about basal half always distinctly widened; in about apical half of tegmen roughly parallel-sided; narrowest tegmen width often in sub-apical area; apex usually obliquely truncate. Male stridulatory area either long triangular with rounded angles (type species) or in most species shortened and of various shapes; in latter case dorsal area of tegmen when at rest with a gap behind stridulatory area. Male cerci simply curved with apico-internal tooth or projection. Male epiproct broadly rounded, about semicircular, or triangular with apex rounded. Male phallus membranous. Male second abdominal tergite, in some species up to fourth tergite, either setose in middle or second tergite and to a lesser extend third tergite forming dorsal bumps. Female subgenital plate rounded or triangular with apex rounded, rarely with faintly excised apex. Ovipositor sickle-shaped, in typical forms narrow with margins smooth or at apex very finely serrulate (in D. bella margins serrate and apex broadly obtuse).