Rhaphidophora Audinet-Serville 1838
Creators: name: Shi, Fuming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Rhaphidophoridae
Rhaphidophora

description: Key to species of Rhaphidophora from China
1 Apical area of male epiproct with 1 pair of spines............................................................ 2
- Apical area of male epiproct without any spines.............................................................3
2 Male epiproct rectangular with 1 pair of long spines directing outward, widely spaced from each other.......................................................................................... Rhaphidophora brevispinula sp. nov.
- Male epiproct oval, the spines of apical area long directing ventrad, approximately with each other............................................................................................. Rhaphidophora longispinula sp. nov.
3 Male epiproct subrectangular or elliptical...................................................................4
- Male epiproct triangular................................................................................5
4 Male epiproct subrectangular length equal to width, dorsal surface obviously concave medially forming 2 lateral longitudinal carinae.................................................................... Rhaphidophora quadrula sp. nov.
- Male epiproct large, elliptical, longer than wide, lateral margins obviously raised, posterior margin truncate.................................................................................. Rhaphidophora sinica Bey-Bienko, 1962
5 Male epiproct about as wide as long, lateral margins obviously expanded and curved ventrad, dorsal surface concave, apex angular, acute and slightly upcurved........................................... Rhaphidophora longitabula sp. nov.
- Male epiproct longer than wide...........................................................................6
6 Lateral margins of male epiproct obviously constricted subapical area, apical area expanded, dorsal surface with a longitudinal furrow in the midline....................................................... .. Rhaphidophora biprocera sp. nov.
- Apical area of male epiproct not expanded..................................................................7
7 Dorsal surface of male epiproct obviously convex, with a deeply longitudinal furrow in the midline, slightly upcurved in lateral view, apical area angular; male cerci slender, conical.................................. Rhaphidophora incilis sp. nov.
- Dorsal surface of male epiproct flat, not convex.............................................................8
8 Dorsal surface of hind basitarsi with 1–2 spines........................ Rhaphidophora sichuanensis Liu & Zhang, 2002
- Dorsal surface of hind basitarsi with 4–6 spines..............................................................9
9 Apical area of female subgenital plate without spine, obtusely rounded.... Rhaphidophora minuolamella Liu & Zhang, 2002
- Apical area of female subgenital plate with 1 spine...........................................................10
10 Dorsal surface of hind basitarsi with 4 spines; male epiproct prolonged, narrowing to apex, posterior margin narrowly rounded, dorsal surface with 1 broadly longitudinal furrow in the midline................... Rhaphidophora taiwana Shiraki, 1930
- Dorsal surface of hind basitarsi with 5–6 spines; male epiproct longer than broad, posterior margin obtusely rounded, apical area expanded ventrally which triangular in lateral view, dorsal surface with 1 pair of longitudinal carinae................................................................................... Rhaphidophora xishuang Gorochov, 2012
description: Published as part of Shi, Fuming, 2017, Contribution to the Chinese Rhaphidophorinae Walker, 1869 (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Rhaphidophorinae): New species of Rhaphidophora Serville, 1838 from China, pp. 261-278 in Zootaxa 4317 (2) on pages 263-264, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/884270