Gorochov A.V. 2024. New and little known taxa of the subfamily Meconematinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from Indo-Malayan and Papuan Regions // Euroasian Entomological Journal. Vol.23. No.2: 59–81 [in English].
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Nab. 1, Saint Pеtersburg 199034 Russia. E-mail: gorochovandrei3@gmail.com
doi 10.15298/euroasentj.23.02.01
ABSTRACT. The genera Pseudoteratura Gorochov, 1998, Alloteratura Hebard, 1922, Rhinoteratura Gorochov, 1993, Odonturisca Gorochov, 2008 and Bharatius Gorochov, gen.n. from the tribe Meconematini as well as the genus Stenophlugis Gorochov, 2012 from the tribe Phlugidini are considered. Two new subgenera as well as ten new species and four new subspecies are also described: P. (Pseudoteratura) daedala sp.n.; P. (P.) bicornis aspinea subsp.n.; A. (Protoratura) primitiva subgen. et sp.n., type of subgenus; A. (Deinoratura) admiranda subgen. et sp.n., type of subgenus; A. (Alloteratura?) unica sp.n.; A. (Meconemopsis) sumatrae sp.n.; A. (M.) sarawaki pallidula subsp.n.; Rhinoteratura kedah sp.n.; Rh. lawang sp.n.; O. karnyi truncata subsp.n.; O. k. angusta subsp.n.; Bh. conocercus sp.n., type of genus; Bh.? anamalai sp.n.; S. bacan sp.n. Moreover, previously unknown female of P. (Subtilotura) subtilissima Gorochov, 2008 as well as male of A. (M.) sarawaki sarawaki Gorochov, 2002 and of Rh. ketambe Gorochov, 2022 are described. The former genus Borneopsis Gorochov, 2016 is here treated as a subgenus of the genus Pseudoteratura, and the following new combinations are proposed: Pseudoteratura (Pseudoteratura) bicornis (Ingrisch, 2006), comb.n., P. (Borneopsis) divulsa (Gorochov, 2016), comb.n., P. (B.) contigua (Gorochov, 2016), comb.n., Alloteratura (Protoratura) chela (Tan, Gorochov et Wahab, 2017), comb.n., A. (Deinoratura) podgornaya Gorochov, 1998, comb.n., A. (D.) subanalis Karny, 1926, comb.n., A. (D.) siamensis Jin, 1995, comb.n., A. (Meconemopsis) karnyi Kästner, 1932, comb.n., A. (M.) belalongensis Tan, Gorochov et Wahab, 2017, comb.n., and A. (M.) eubispina tuberculata Jin, 2020, stat. et comb.n.
KEY WORDS: taxonomy, Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Meconematinae, Asia, Oceania.