Indoliara, Ingrisch, 2020

Ingrisch, Sigfrid, 2020, New subgenera and species of Agraeciini (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Conocephalinae) from South Asia found in historical insect collections, Evolutionary Systematics 4 (2), pp. 119-132 : 119

Indoliara subgen. nov.

Type species.

Liara (Indoliara) dividata Ingrisch sp. nov.

Diagnosis.

The new subgenus resembles the genus Liara sensu stricto in general shape, basic coloration, and the shape of the long, substraight and laterally compressed female ovipositor that is dorso-ventrally widened in about mid-length. It differs by the strongly modified shape of the male cerci that are shorter and hood-shaped instead of laterally compressed and the ventral branch is rather thin, rounded, and inserted at base of the internal side of the main branch, it is angled about in mid-length and reaching only about the middle of the main branch instead of surpassing it in the nominate subgenus. Moreover, a small spine that is found at tip of the main cercus branch in some species of the nominate subgenus moved to about mid-length of the internal side of the main branch in the new subgenus and species. The male titillators are simplified in Indoliara and consist of long but simple, elongate bases that are bent lateral at tip terminating into a long-narrow oval, granular endplate while in Liara s. str. there are often lateral expansions and the tip of the titillators is serrate.

The tip of the fastigium verticis is markedly divided at end into two short lobes; but this might be a species-specific character since a very fine, inconspicuous notch at tip of the fastigium verticis can rarely be also found in species of Liara s. str., e.g. in L. alata Ingrisch, 1998)