Pseudonicsara (Wasiorana) curvata, Ingrisch, 2009

Ingrisch, Sigfrid, 2009, Revision of the genus Pseudonicsara Karny, 1912 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae: Agraeciini) 2185, Zootaxa 2185, pp. 1-122 : 65-66

Pseudonicsara (Wasiorana) curvata sp. n.

Figs. 465, 534, 540, map 3.

Holotype (female): Indonesia, Papua: NW New Guinea, Sorong, Malasso 18km, 0°49'S, 131°14'E, 28.VIII.1948, M.A. Lieftinck, depository: Collectio Fer Willemse, Eygelshoven, Netherlands ( CW), later to be deposited in Naturalis, Leiden ( RMNH).

Diagnosis. Females of P. curvata are similar to those of P. alces . They differ by the prosternal spines being shorter than half the length of the fore coxa and by the characteristic shape of the subgenital plate that has basal grooves only nearly half as long as half the length of the subgenital plate, a median carina and a transverse carina interrupted in midline, and the apical lobes broadly rounded ( Figs. 534, 540). The shape of the female subgenital plate differs also from that of other species of the genus.

Description. Fastigium verticis in front of eyes 1.1 mm, from base 1.8 mm; dorsal eye length 2.1 mm; index fastigium verticis from base: eye length 0.8. Face rugose. Tegmen distinctly surpassing hind knees; costal field narrowed between middle and apical third; between radius and cubitus with parallel and almost evenly spaced transverse veinlets. Prosternal spines short. Femora with the following number of spines on ventral margins: fore femur 8 external, 7 internal; mid femur 7–8 external, 4 internal near base; hind femur 13–14 external, 10–12 internal in basal half. Knee lobes of hind femur bi-spinose on both sides.

Male unknown.

Female. Tenth abdominal tergite transverse, apex triangularly excised in middle. Subgenital plate with a median carina and on each side with a transverse carina; apex terminating into two rounded lobes, triangularly excised in between; lateral sclerites small, in ventral view largely hidden beneath subgenital plate and with a membranous swelling projecting laterad ( Figs. 534, 540).

Coloration. Uniformly pale brown. Face black, mandibles and antennal scrobae also black; scapus and flagellum of antennae pale brown; clypeus yellow, labrum orange. Tegmen brown with a network of light veinlets but pattern little expressed. Hind femur concolorous; hind knees brown (little conspicuous). Ovipositor reddish brown.

Measurements of female: body 43; pronotum 10.3; tegmen 40.5; hind femur 23; ovipositor 21.5 mm.

Etymology. Name refers to the curved ovipositor.