Phryganogryllacris Karny 1937
Creators: name: Li, Miao-Miao
name: Fang, Yan
name: Liu, Xian-Wei
name: Li, Kai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Haglidae
Phryganogryllacris

description: Phryganogryllacris Karny, 1937
Phryganogryllacris Karny, 1937. Genera Ins., 206: 118. Type species: Gryllacris phryganoides De Haan, 1842.
Diagnosis. Small to medium sized. Head small, fastigium of vertex long-oval and smooth. Eyes long-ovate, prominent. Fore margin of pronotum more or less projected, hind margin straight. Tegmina and wings extending beyond the apex of abdomen. Base of M not united with R. Wings transparent, membranes pale. Fore coxae with spine, fore and mid tibiae with 5 pairs of spurs on ventral surface, mid tibiae bearing a spur on dorsal surface. Hind femora with spines ventrally, hind tibiae with 3–7 spines each margin on dorsal surface. Each side of male abdominal tergite 9 with a hook-like process, subgenital plate with styli. Ovipositor more or less upcurved, with slightly blunt apex.
Key to species of Phryganogryllacris from China
1. Pronotum without blackish macula or blackish band ........................................................................................................................... 2 Pronotum with blackish macula or blackish bands...............................................................................................................................6
2. Posterior margin of male subgenital plate without incision; ovipositor not extending beyond the apex of tegmina ............................3 Posterior margin of male subgenital plate with incision; ovipositor extending beyond the apex of tegmina .......................................4
3. Abdominal tergite 9 of male broadly rounded; posterior margin of male subgenital plate broadly rounded; abdominal sternum 7 of female specialization; subgenital plate with a median incision ........................................ P. subrectis (Matsumura & Shiraki, 1908) Abdominal tergite 9 of male conical; posterior margin of male subgenital plate projected; abdominal sternum 7 of female not specialization; subgenital plate without median incision ............................................ P. brevixipha (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893)
4. Tegmina rather extending beyond hind femora; cerci of male short (shorter than 5 mm); posterior margin of female subgenital plate with narrow incision............................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Tegmina hardly extending beyond hind femora; cerci of male long (longer than 5 mm); posterior margin of female subgenital plate with corniform incision ........................................................................................................................ P. unicolor Liu & Wang, 1998
5. Tegmina extending beyond 25 mm; abdominal tergite 9 of male lateral hook strongly curved.............................................................. ................................................................................................................................................. P. sichuanensis Li, Liu & Li, sp. nov. Tegmina not extending beyond 25 mm; abdominal tergite 9 of male lateral hook straighter ........................ P. sheni Niu & Shi, 1999
6. Body small (tegmina not extending beyond 20 mm long) ....................................................................................................................7 Body larger (tegmina extending beyond 20 mm long) ......................................................................................................................... 8
7. Lateral margin of pronotum with blackish longitudinal band; posterior margin of female subgenital plate slightly concave................ ............................................................................................................................................................. P. parva Li, Liu & Li, sp. nov. Lateral and posterior margin of pronotum with black bands; posterior margin of female subgenital plate truncated ............................ ........................................................................................................................................................ P. truncata Li, Liu & Li, sp. nov.
8. Hind femora with black stripes ........................................................................................... P. decempunctata Liu, Bi & Zhang, 2010 Hind femora without black stripe......................................................................................................................................................... 9
9. Posterior margin of male subgenital plate broadly rounded; abdominal sternum 7 of female with deeply median incision .................. ......................................................................................................................................................................... P. mellii (Karny, 1926) Posterior margin of male subgenital plate with incision; abdominal sternum 7 of female normal .....................................................10
10. Tegmina transparent brownish yellow; cerci of male length 5–6 mm ......................................................... P. xiai Liu & Zhang, 2001 Tegmina semitransparent infuscate; cerci of male length 8–9 mm ..................................................................................................... 11
11. Disk of pronotum with interrupted blackish longitudinal band; both sides of sterna without blackish macula; abdominal tergite 9 with roundly convex posterior margin .......................................................................................... P. interrupta Li, Liu & Li, sp. nov. Disk of pronotum with two pale blackish macula; both sides of sterna with blackish macula; abdominal tergite 9 with truncated posterior margin ............................................................................................................................ P. longicerca Li, Liu & Li, sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Li, Miao-Miao, Fang, Yan, Liu, Xian-Wei & Li, Kai, 2014, Taxonomic revision of the genus Phryganogryllacris (Orthoptera: Gryllacrididae) from China, pp. 507-519 in Zoological Systematics 39 (4) on page 508, DOI: 10.11865/zs.20140404, http://zenodo.org/record/4617426