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Aalatettix Zheng & Mao 2002

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Aalatettix Zheng & Mao, 2002

Aalatettix Zheng & Mao, 2002. Journal of Shaanxi Normal University, 30(1): 93. Zheng, 2005. Fauna of Tetrigoidea from Western China, 346.

Deng, Zheng and Wei, 2007, Fauna of Tetrigoidea from Yunnan and Guangxi, 312. Type species: Aalatettix longipulvillus Zheng & Mao, 2002

Diagnosis. Body small. Vertex slightly protruding before anterior margin of eyes, with median carina, width of vertex 1.6–2.8 times of width of an eye; frontal ridge straight before lateral ocelli in profile, slightly protuberant between antennae; longitudinal furrow of frontal ridge narrow. Antennae filiform, inserted between lower margins of eyes. Pronotum ridgelike; anterior margin obtuse, apex of hind process narrowly rounded or with a concave in the middle; posterior margin of lateral lobes of pronotum with 2 concaves, the winged one extremely shallow, apex of posterior angles rounded. Wings absent or extremely degenerated, covered by pronotum. First segment of posterior tarsi longer than the third.

Notes

Published as part of Zheng, Zhemin & Lin, Liliang, 2015, A review of the genus Aalatettix with the description of a new species from China (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae), pp. 488-492 in Zootaxa 3986 (4) on page 488, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.4.8, http://zenodo.org/record/233828

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Zheng & Mao
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Tetrigidae
Genus
Aalatettix
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Aalatettix Zheng, 2002 sec. Zheng & Lin, 2015

References

  • Zheng, Z. M. & Mao, B. Y. (2002) A survey of Tetrigoidea from north western region of Yunnan, China. J ournal of Shaanxi Normal University, 30 (1), 89 - 98.
  • Zheng, Z. M. (2005) Fauna of Tetrigoidea from Western China. Science Press, Beijing, 501 pp.
  • Deng, W. A., Zheng, Z. M. & Wei, S. Z. (2007) Fauna of Tetrigoidea from Yunnan and Guangxi. Science and Technology Press, Nanning, 458 pp.