New taxa and notes of some described species of Agraeciini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae) from Malay Peninsula Author Tan, Ming Kai Author Ingrisch, Sigfrid text Zootaxa 2014 3765 6 541 556 journal article 46385 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.6.3 e6661924-2484-4f9f-85c2-d8c25408600f 1175-5326 252510 68B98703-2C91-405A-AC48-21CA34F5FD90 Genus Peracca Griffini, 1897 Peracca Griffini, 1897a : 1 . Type species: Peracca conspicuithorax Griffini Karnyus Griffini, 1908 : 545 . Type species: Karnyus doriae Griffini Paracrodonta Karny, 1926 : 188 . Type species Paracrodonta subulicerca Karny Diagnosis. Species of the genus can be recognised by a combination of the following characters. The pronotum carries a spine behind the ventro-anterior angle of the pronotum, the male pronotum is prolonged behind and bulbous; the paranota of pronotum have the auditory swelling modified (usually with a fold); the mesosternal lobes are long-conical and with an additional spine at each anterior angle (sometimes weak); there is a spine at the anterior margin of the mesosternal plate; pro- and mesofemur are provided on ventral margins with larger spines that are alternating with minute spinules; the wings are strongly abbreviated, in male micropterous and largely hidden under the prolonged pronotum, in female squamipterous; the male phallus is lacking titillators, instead the cerci are greatly modified; the female ovipositor is dagger-shaped.