Arnobia Stål, 1876

Tan, Ming Kai & Artchawakom, Taksin, 2014, A new species of Arnobia (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae: Phaneropterinae) from Sakaerat, Thailand, Zootaxa 3857 (1), pp. 131-136 : 132

Genus Arnobia Stål, 1876

Type species: Arnobia pilipes (Haan, 1842)

Diagnosis. Medium-sized katydid, mostly green throughout when alive with dorsal part of tegmen dark brown or black. This genus is very similar in habitus to Stictophaula Hebard, 1922 but differs by the presence of small median emargination along the posterior margin of dorsal plate of pronotum; presence of large dark basal spot on the dorsal part of female tegmen (instead of small spot in Stictophaula ); male subgenital plate with less than 3 very short lobes along apical margin (instead of 2 to 4 lobes, with 1 pair of long lateral lobes and 1 pair of shorter median lobes in Stictophaula ); absence of unpaired sclerites of the male genitalia ( Gorochov, 1998; Gorochov & Voltshenkova, 2009).

Remarks. Six species (one of which contains two subspecies) are currently known: Arnobia guangxiensis Liu, 2011 , Arnobia hainanensis Liu, 2011 , Arnobia inocellata Gorochov, 1998 , Arnobia pilipes pilipes (Haan, 1842) , Arnobia pilipes tropica Gorochov, 1998 , Arnobia trichopus (Haan, 1842) , Arnobia vietensis Gorochov, 1998 ( Eades et al., 2014) . Key to currently known species (excluding new species described here) is available in Liu (2011).