Neoparanothrotes

Ünal, Mustafa, 2016, Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) from the Palaearctic Region: taxonomy, classification, keys to genera and a review of the tribe Nocarodeini I. Bolívar, Zootaxa 4206 (1), pp. 1-223 : 131

Key to species of Neoparanothrotes

1 Body large and less depressed dorso-ventrally (male: body length 25.5–27; female: body length 45-61, pronotum 7.6–9.4, hind femur 16–19.5 mm) ( Fig. 518 ); anterior margins of the first 5–6 abdominal tergites with a couple of black spots dorsally; vertex slightly convex up to fastigium in lateral view ( Figs. 518–519 ); hind femur with blackened inner and ventral surfaces; hind tibia pale yellow turning to orange at apex or ventral surface weakly blackened without orange at apex; tarsus orange....................................................................................... N. borumandi Mirzayans

- Body distinctly smaller and more depressed dorso-ventrally (female: body length 38, pronotum 7.2, hind femur 14.5 mm) ( Fig. 520 ); dorsal surface of abdominal tergites without black spots; vertex more convex up to frontal ridge in lateral view ( Figs. 520–521 ); hind femur with slightly blackened inner and ventral surfaces; hind tibia lemon yellow turning to orange in apical 1/ 3 part; tarsus reddish-orange....................................................... N. diamesus (Bey-Bienko)

Figures

FIGURES 509 – 521. Habitus and body parts. 509 – 510 Paranothrotes nigripes, 509 male; 510 female lectotype. 511 – 512 Paranothrotes ornatus, 511 male holotype; 512 female allotype. 513 – 514 Pseudonothrotes levis, 513 male holotype; 514 female allotype. 515 – 516 Eunothrotes derjugini, 515 male lectotype; 516 female paralectotype. 517 – 519 Neoparanothrotes borumandi, 517 male paratype; 518 female paratype; 519 ditto female head and pronotum. 520 – 521 Neoparanothrotes diamesus, female holotype, 520 habitus; 521 ditto head and pronotum.