A new species from the genus Gorochovitettix (Tetrigidae: Metrodorinae) from Thailand
Author
Tan, Ming Kai
Author
Artchawakom, Taksin
text
Zootaxa
2015
3990
3
444
450
journal article
39786
10.11646/zootaxa.3990.3.9
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1175-5326
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Subfamily
Metrodorinae
Discussion.
Gorochovitettix
can be rightly placed under the subfamily
Metrodorinae
since it possesses the main diagnostic characters of the subfamily: pronotal lateral lobe that is directed outwards and obliquely truncated and with basitarsus and third segment of hind tarsus subequal in length (
Storozhenko & Pushkar, 2015
). This is in spite of the fact that
Gorochovitettix
also resembles representatives from the subfamily
Cladonotinae
by frontal ridge (or scutellum) distinctively broader than scapus. Adding this genus to the current phylogeny of
Tetrigidae
could help to confirm the subfamily status of this newly-erected genus.