Nigrimacula Shi, Bian & Zhou 2016
Creators: name: Yao, Yuqing
name: Bian, Xun
name: Zhang, Bin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Nigrimacula

description: Key to known species of Nigrimacula (male)
1 Pronotal disc with 2 black spots.................................................................. N. binotata
- Pronotal disc with 4 black spots.......................................................................... 2
2 Internal margin of male cercus without spine or lobe in middle area, apical half expanded............................ 3
- Internal margin of male cercus with 1 spine or lobe in middle area, apical half faintly expanded....................... 6
3 Apical area of male cercus expanded on interno-dorsal and interno-ventral margins................................. 4
- Apical area of male cercus only expanded on interno-ventral margin............................................. 5
4 Apical area of male cercus narrowly lamellar expanding on interno-dorsal margin, interno-ventral margin with 2 obtuse and short processes, apical area compressed......................................................... N. biprotubera
- Apical third of male cercus compressed, interno-dorsal margin narrowly lamellar expanding, interno-ventral margin with a short conical process, apical area narrowing......................................................... N. trigona
5 Apical half of male cercus compressed, spoon-shaped.............................................. N. beybienkoi
- Apical half of male cercus rectangularly expanded on internal margin.................................. N. platycerca
6 Apical half of male cercus with teeth...................................................................... 7
- Apical half of male cercus without teeth................................................................... 8
7 Male cercus with basal area with 1 lamellar lobe on internal margin, following by 1 internal digitate process, ventral margin with 1 transverse lobe on subbasal area with minute teeth at apical margin, the process connecting with 5–6 teeth, interno-ventral margin of apical area rectangularly expanded with 15–16 teeth................................. N. xizangensis
- Male cercus stout, apical area excavated with 1 lamellar lobe on dorsal margin, its apex with 9 teeth, following by 1 cylindrical process with 7 teeth at apex, internal margin with 1 spatulate process bearing 15 apical teeth, interno-ventral margin with 1 oblique, lamellar lobe with 7 teeth at apex...................................................... N. quadrinotata
8 Internal margin of male cercus with 1 lamellar lobe in middle area or apical half................................... 9
- Internal margin of male cercus with 1 process in middle area.................................................. 11
9 Male cercus long with 1 digitate lobe on interno-dorsal margin and 1 small rectangular process on interno-ventral margin, apical area of cercus compressed...................................................................... N. laminata
- Male cercus short, internal margin with 1 rectangular lobe.................................................... 10
10 Internal lobe of male cercus large, ventral margin with a short obtuse internal lobe near middle area............ N. inlobata
- Internal lobe of male cercus narrow and short, ventral margin without lobe......................... N. wuliangshanensis
11 Internal margin of male cercus not expanded, with 1 short process in middle area, apical area of cercus compressed................................................................................................ N. sichuanensis
- Internal margin of male cercus moderately expanded........................................................ 12
12 Male cercus terminating from base to apex, apical area bifurcated in lateral view.................... N. paraquadrinotata
- Male cercus almost of equal width from base to apex, apical area moderately expanded................... N. compressata
description: Published as part of Yao, Yuqing, Bian, Xun & Zhang, Bin, 2025, Description of the female of Nigrimacula trigona Duan, Su, Shi & Chang, (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from Yunnan, China, pp. 132-136 in Zootaxa 5609 (1) on page 133, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5609.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/15214916