Rhinoteratura Gorochov, 1993

Gorochov, A. V., 2022, Taxonomy of the katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from East Asia and adjacent islands. Communication 15, Far Eastern Entomologist 459, pp. 1-26 : 19

Genus Rhinoteratura Gorochov, 1993 , stat. n.

NOTE. Yamasaki (1982) described the genus Leptoteratura Yamasaki, 1982 for a few specimens of this genus from Japan determined by him as Meconema ? albicorne Motschulsky,

1866. However, the original description of this species contains the following words:

“Elongato-ovatum, depressum, fusco-subtestaceum, … antennis albidis; thorace transverso,

… hemielytris [tegmina] postice reticulatis” (Motschoulsky, 1866). The latter description does not in accordance to the body structure of the above-mentioned specimens and to their coloration (these specimens have their body thin, not depressed, light greenish including antennae, with elongate thorax and not reticulate distal tegminal parts) but quite in accordance to the type specimen of M.? albicorne which is a male of the genus Meloimorpha

Walker, 1870 ( Gryllidae ) deposited in the Zoological Museum of Moscow University (OSF).

The male body (with tegmina) of this cricket is really elongately oval, dorsoventrally depressed, somewhat darkened (greyish brown) as well as with a transverse thorax and reticulate apical tegminal areas. Thus, the name Leptoteratura syn. n. is a junior synonym of

Meloimorpha ; Meconema ? albicorne syn. n. is most probably a junior synonym of

Meloimorpha japonica japonica (Haan, 1844) having whitish antennae; the former subgeneric name Rhinoteratura Gorochov, 1993 is a valid name for the genus previously known under the erroneous name Leptoteratura ; and the species, determined by Yamasaki

(1982) as M.? albicorne, may have the name Rh. omeiensis (Tinkham, 1956) , sp. resurr. et comb. n. described from China (Sichuan) and synonymized with L. albicornis sensu Yamasaki by Jin & Yamasaki (1995). However, the latter identification needs to be checked, because the areas of these specimens ( Japan and Sichuan in China) are very distant.