Apteranabropsis Gorochov 1988
Creators: name: Bian, Xun
name: Shi, Fu-Ming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Chorotypidae
Apteranabropsis

description: Genus Apteranabropsis Gorochov, 1988
Apteranabropsis Gorochov, 1988. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 67(3): 358; Johns, 1997. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 6: 133 (as a synonymy of Paterdecolyus); Gorochov, 1998. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 77(1): 78; Gorochov, 2001a. Zoosystematica Rossica, 9(2): 306; Gorochov, 2001b. In: Field, L. H. [Ed.]. The biology of Wetas, King Crickets and their Allies, 8; Gorochov, 2010. Far Eastern Entomologist, 206: 2.
Type species: Aperanabrpsis miser (Bey-Bienko, 1968)
Diagnosis. Body medium for the subfamily, form robust, black to dark brown, pterothorax and abdomen of some species with longitudinal yellowish to yellow ridges. Wings absent or obviously reduced. Head with fastigium verticis narrow, depressed, protruding forwards, furrowed in the middle. Antennal scape elongate, with a swelling on internal margin near base. Eyes prominent, ocelli distinct. Disc of pronotum smooth, humeral sinus absent. Prosternum, mesosternum and metasternum with 1 pair of processes separately. Fore and middle coxae with 1 small spine. Fore and middle femora without ventral spine; outer sides of hind femora with obviously pinnate stripes, ventral surface with small spine or not, apices of genicular lobes rounded only middle and hind legs with 1 small inner spine. Dorsal surface of fore tibiae with 1 inner spur, ventral surface with 4 pairs of spurs, apices with 1 pair of dorsal and ventral spurs separately, tibial tympana of fore opened on both sides, oval. Dorsal surface of middle tibiae with 2–3 spurs on inner and outer sides separately, ventral surface with 4 pairs of spurs, apices with 1 pair of dorsal and ventral spurs separately. Hind tibiae with 2 rows of spines on dorsal surface, subapices with 1 pair of small ventral spurs, apices with 1 pair of dorsal spurs and 2 pairs of ventral spurs, the dorsal apical spurs obviously longer than ventral apical ones. Between the claws no pulvillus projection. Male. Posterior margin of ninth abdominal tergite normal or concave in the middle, the lateral lobes forming a pair of digitate lobes for some species. Tenth abdominal tergite with 1 pair of short sclerotized hooks on both sides.
Paraproct specialized, consists of 2 long sclerotized processes which directed upwards. Cerci long, cylindrical, slightly narrowing to apex, apices obtuse. Subgenital plate longer than broad, with developed styli. Female. Cerci nearly conical. Subgenital plate varies little for the genus, basal area broad, sharply narrower in the middle, then forming a long, gradually narrowing process. Ovipositor upcurved, dorsal valvulae obviously longer than ventral ones.
Distribution. China, India, Nepal, Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Bian, Xun & Shi, Fu-Ming, 2015, A new species of Apteranabropsis Gorochov, 1988 from Guangxi, China (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae: Anabropsinae: Anabropsini) with key to known species, pp. 472-476 in Zootaxa 4040 (4) on pages 473-474, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.4.8, http://zenodo.org/record/236869