Zvenella Gorochov, 1988

Mal, Jhabar, Nagar, Rajendra & Swaminathan, R., 2014, New record of the bush cricket, Zvenella yunnana Gorochov (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Podoscirtinae) from India, Zootaxa 3872 (1), pp. 83-88 : 84

Genus Zvenella Gorochov, 1988

As described by Gorochov, Zvenella differs from all other genera with the same type of the male genitalia, rather being smaller in size, with more or less dark brown coloration and several lighter areas; yellowish or whitish spots on dorsal part of the male tegmina, are most typical; rounded bends of pronotum between the disc and lateral lobes; normal stridulatory apparatus of male with the stridulatory teeth only in short medial part of stridulatory vein and longitudinal mirror; developed male metanotal gland; slightly inflated proximal part of fore tibiae provided with oval outer and slit-like inner tympana; simple male anal plate and boat-shaped sub-genital plate. The genus Zvenella is close to Madasumma that was rechristened as Zvenella ( Gorochov, 1988) and the species is characterized by the epiphallus with distinctly denticulate lower apical lobes, a pair of large upper processes, and rather short and/or wide hind lateral lobes. The descriptions given by Gorochov (2002) and Ingrisch (1997) conform to the specimens examined by us.