Austrohancockia Günther, 1938

Deng, Weian, Zheng, Zhemin & Wei, Shizhen, 2008, A taxonomic study of the genus Austrohancockia Günther (Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea: Tetrigidae), Zootaxa 1896, pp. 63-68 : 64

Austrohancockia Günther, 1938

Austrohancockia Günther, 1938 , Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 23:349.

Pseudohancockia Zheng et Liang, 1987 , Entomotaxonomia, 9(3): 243.

Austronancockia Günther; Liang et Zheng, 1991, Acta Zoot. Sin., 16(2): 194.

Austrohancockia Günther ; Liang and Zheng, 1998, Fauna Sinica, Insecta vol.12, Orth. Tetrigoidea, 37–38. Austrohancockia Günther ; Zheng, 2005, Fauna of Tetrigoidea from Western China, 35. Austronancockia Gnther; Deng, Zheng & Wei, 2007, Fauna of the Tetrigoidea from Yunnan and Guangxi, 34. Type species: Austrohancockia kuangtungensis ( Tinkham, 1936) .

Body small, stout and short. Vertex very wide, width of vertex 2–3 times the width of an eye. Frontal costa widely forked between the ocelli, the rami strongly divergent. Antennae filiform, inserted below the eyes. Eyes globular, paired ocelli inserted between the lower margins of eyes. dorsum of pronotum granulose, rough with irregular longitudinal tubercles and rugosity. Median carina of pronotum generally strongly elevated and foliaceous before the shoulders in profile. humeral angle arcuate or cornute. Apex of hind pronotal process concave. Posterior angles of lateral lobes truncate, posterior margins of lateral lobes of pronotum with one concavity. Tegmina and hind wings absent. Margins of fore and middle femora with dentation, hind femora generally with tubercules on outside, first segment of posterior tarsi longer than the third. Austrohancockia is closely related to Hancockia Kirby , but differs in apex of hind pronotal process concave, tegmina and hind wings absent.

Biology and ecology: They are typical inhabitants of moist places in tropical rainforests, such as marshes, moist stony ground, on the ground between fallen leaves and on the border of streams. They are capable of swimming on the surface of the water, and readily leap into the water when alarmed. They feed on mosses and other forms of humus. They lay eggs in the mud-mostly at the beginning of the rainy season and generally overwinter as adults.