Itara Walker 1869
Creators: name: He, Zhixin
name: Ma, Libin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Haglotettigoniidae
Itara

description: Key to species of Itara from China (based on adult males)
1. Body colored dark, epiphallic dorsum bearing a row of denticles medially (Figs. 9A, D-F; 10A, B, E-G)................ 2
-- Body colored yellowish brown, epiphallic dorsum without denticles............................................. 3
2. Fore femur completely colored dark (Figs. 10A).................................... I. (N.) nocturna Gorochov, 1988
-- Fore femur partly colored dark (Fig. 9A).......................................... I. (N.) sonabilis Gorochov, 1996
3. Ectoparamere strongly protruding beyond epiphallic apex, with a large lateral lobe................................. 4
-- Ectoparamere not extending to epiphallic apex, lateral lobe of ectoparamere extremely small and not covering its inner part (Figs. 11 C-E)............................................................ I. (G.) denudata Ma & Zhang, 2015
4. Whole pronotal disc colored dark brown except blade-shape pattern (Figs. 4A, B)................................................................................................................ I. (I.) aperta Gorochov, 1996
-- Part of pronotal disc colored dark brown except blade-shape pattern............................................. 5
5. Median ocellus much smaller than lateral ocelli (about 1/3 of lateral ocelli).................. I. (I.) minor Chopard, 1925
-- Median ocellus little smaller than lateral ocelli.............................................................. 6
6. Anal plate apical part is about 1/2 width of the basal (Fig. 5D).................................................. 7
-- Anal plate apical part is about 2/3 width of the basal (Fig. 6D).................................................. 9
7. Lateral lobes of pronotum nearly 1/2 portions colored dark........................... I. (I.) communis Gorochov, 1997
-- Lateral lobes of pronotum almost entirely colored dark....................................................... 8
8. Lateral edges of epiphallus constricted distally and bearing inward curved apex; lateral lobes of ectoparamere are small (Fig. 8F)..................................................................................... I. (I.) acri sp. n.
-- Lateral edges of epiphallus invariable distally and bearing upward curved apex; lateral lobes of ectoparamere are large (Fig. 4F)...................................................................... I. (I.) vietnamensis Gorochov, 1985
9. Epiphallic apex upward curved, possessing denticles at bottom (Fig. 6F)............ I. (I.) basidentata Ma & Zhang, 2015
-- Epiphallic apex somewhat expanded, bearing two large denticles (Fig. 7F).............. I. (I.) dicrana Ma & Zhang, 2015
description: Published as part of He, Zhixin & Ma, Libin, 2021, Crickets of the subfamily Itarinae Shiraki, 1930 (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) from China with description of a new species and distribution and critical notes on other species, pp. 382-408 in Zootaxa 4942 (3) on page 384, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4942.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4604363