Paraphlugiolopsis Bian & Shi

Bian, Xun, Xie, Guang-Lin, Chang, Yan-Lin & Shi, Fu-Ming, 2014, One new genus and two new species of the tribe Meconematini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from Yunnan, China, Zootaxa 3793 (2), pp. 286-290 : 286-287

Paraphlugiolopsis Bian & Shi , gen. nov.

Generic diagnosis. Body small, brachypterous. Fastigium verticis conical, with a median sulcus, apex obtuse. Eyes subglobular. Apical segment of maxillary palpus slightly as long as subapical one, apex inflated. Posterior margin of pronotum protruding backwards, metazona not raised, disc with a pair of dark brown stripe on lateral margin, between which light brown; lateral lobe longer than high, without humeral sinus. Ventral margin of all femora without spines, apices of genicular lobes obtuse; procoxae with 1 spine; pro- and mesotibiae with spines on ventral margin, tibial tympana open on both sides, ovoid; posttibiae with a pair of dorsal apical spurs and a pair of ventral apical spurs. Male tegmina not reaching, or slightly surpassing posterior margin of pronotum, the teeth of stridulatory file robust and sparse; female tegmina overlapping; hind wings absent. Posterior margin of male tenth abdominal tergite normal or slightly projecting, genitalia membranous; basal area of cerci expanded, apical half cylindrical; subapex of subgenital plate with styli on ventral margin. Female pronotum shorter, disc without brown stripes; subgenital plate broader than long; dorsal and ventral margins of ovipositor smooth, apices of dorsal valvulae sharply pointed, apices of ventral ones with a small distinct terminal hook.

Discussion. The new genus is very similar to Phlugiolopsis Zeuner, 1940 in the general appearance, but it differs from the latter in: body yellowish green; dorsum of head without 4 obviously brown or black brown stripes; the teeth of stridulatory file larger but more widely separated from one another; posttibiae with a pair of ventral apical spurs.

Type species: Paraphlugiolopsis jiangi sp. nov., here designated.