Pseudotachycines, Qin & Liu & Li, 2017

Qin, Yanyan, Liu, Xianwei & Li, Kai, 2017, A new genus and some new descriptions of the tribe Aemodogryllini (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae, Aemodogryllinae; Aemodogryllini) from China, Zootaxa 4303 (4), pp. 482-490 : 482

Pseudotachycines gen. nov.

Type species. Pseudotachycines deformis sp. nov., here designated.

Description. Body medium-sized. Vertex of head divided into conical tubercles, distinctly separated. Legs elongate and slender, fore femora about 1.3–1.8 times as long as the pronotum. Paraproct of male specilized, distinctly longer than epiproct. Dorsolateral lobes of male genitalia with a distinctly sclerotized apex.

This new genus is distinguished from Diestrammena (Tachycines) Adelung, 1902 by its specilized structure of male paraproct which distinctly longer than male epiproct and its dorsolateral lobes of male genitalia with apex being sclerotized.