Caryanda viridis (Zheng & Mao, 1996)

Yin, Zhi-Long & Mao, Ben-Yong, 2023, A review of Caryanda viridis- species group (Orthoptera: Acrididae) with a new species, Zootaxa 5263 (4), pp. 505-519 : 506

Caryanda viridis - species group

Differential diagnosis: Male with or sometimes without very small vestigial furculae on posterior margin of the 10 th abdominal tergite; epiproct scutellate or pentagonal; cerci falciform, laterally compressed, basally broad, subapically decurved, with apex rounded, and inner side usually blunt-toothed; phallic complex with apical valves distally expanded, nearly long oval in posterior view; epiphallus with lophi nearly semicircular, falciform or oblong. Female with a large interspace between ventral basivalvular sclerite; inner margin of ventral ovipositor valves distinctly curved.

Composition and Notes. In Orthoptera Species File [OSF] ( Cigliano et al. 2022), the C. viridis - species group includes C. viridis (Zhen & Mao, 1996) , C. dehongensis Mao, Xu & Yang, 2003 , C. albomaculata Mao, Ren & Ou, 2007 , C. viridoides Mao, Ren & Ou, 2011 and C. eshana Mao, 2015 , a total of five species. For the above reasons, C. viridoides is removed from viridis - species group. In addition, C. xinpingensis Mao, 2017 was transferred to C. viridis - species group (see the remark under C. xinpingensis ). Thus six species including the new species described in this paper are now assigned to the C. viridis - species group and found in Yunnan, China.