Elimaea chloris (Haan, 1842)

Nagar, Rajendra, Mal, Jhabar & Swaminathan, R., 2014, Additions to the reported Elimaea species (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae: Phaneropterinae) from India, Zootaxa 3860 (6), pp. 536-546 : 543-545

Elimaea chloris (Haan, 1842)

( Figs. 37–40 )

Material examined (1 Specimen). Meghalaya: North Khasi Hills, 4.vi.2013. Jhabar Mal (Umiam).

Elimaea (Elimaea) chloris (De Haan) . Fastigium verticis narrow, dorsally furrowed, step-like declined to fastigium frontis; pronotum with disc flattened, especially in posterior area, lateral angles rounded into paranota; transverse sulcus V-shaped with a faint indication of a medial carinula; paranota longer than high, ventral and posterior margin together broadly rounded, humeral sinus distinct; tegmina with radius sector branching between 5.5 to 11.5mm base from the tegmina; anterior femur with spines on both ventral margin, on external side sometimes absent or only one spine; meso and metafemora with spines on ventro-external; genicular lobe of all legs bispinose; anterior tibia with dorsal and ventral, external and internal apical spurs.

Male. Not in our collections, but described by Ingrisch (1998).

Female.Tenth abdominal tergite short, transverse with a distinct puncture in middle; epiproct long tongue shaped, apex acutely projecting in middle; cerci moderately curved, apex sub-acute ( Fig.37 ); sub-genital plate long triangular, apex short roundly excised ( Fig.38 ); gonangulum of ovipositor with a large semi-membranous, ventral apical appendage ( Fig.40 ); ovipositor ( Fig.39 ).

Figures

FIGURES 37 – 40. Elimaea chloris (de Hann) Female: 37. Cerci, 38. Sub-genital plate, 39. Ovipositor, 40. Gonangulum. FIGURES 41 – 44. Elimaea nautica Ingrisch Female: 41. Cerci, 42. Sub-genital plate, 43. Gonangulum, 44. Ovipositor.