Pseudozubovskia, Zheng & Lin & Zhang & Zeng, 2014

Zheng, Zhe-Min, Lin, Li-Liang, Zhang, Hong-Li & Zeng, Hui-Hua, 2014, One new genus and three new species of wingless grasshoppers from Xizang, China (Orthoptera: Acridoidea), Zoological Systematics 39 (2), pp. 263-268 : 263

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11865/zs20140208

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F03DD198-F8CF-48FA-A305-21CC50F6AC30

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7172995

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EC368B5F-FF98-AA6A-FF47-FB7A5B499319

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Felipe

scientific name

Pseudozubovskia
status

gen. nov.

Pseudozubovskia View in CoL gen. nov.

Body medium size. Head shorter than pronotum. Fastigium of vertex oblique forward, protruding, frontal margin complete, frontal ridge with longitudinal furrow, without fastigial foveolae; antennae filiform; eyes ovate; pronotum cylindrical, posterior margin complete; median carina slender, severed by three transverse furrows, posterior transverse furrow located in the postmedian of pronotum, length of prozona greater than metazona; prosternal spine elongated conical, apex sharp; mesosternal lobes almost square, lateral lobes of metasternum divided; upper margin of median carina of hind femur smooth, without fine denticulate, top of lower kneelobe rounded; hind tibia without outer apical spine; tympanum small; tergum of last abdominal segment of male with small furculae; cercus of male almost columnar; apex of ovipositor sharp, not divided into two dentate.

This new genus is allied to Zubovskia Dornar-Zapolskii, 1933 and Anepipodisma Huang, 1984 . The main differences are listed in Table 1.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

SuperFamily

Acridoidea

Family

Acrididae

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