Teratura
Creators: name: Qiu, Ming
name: Shi, Fu-Ming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Teratura

description: Key to species of the genus Teratura from China (males)
1 Posterior margin of tenth abdominal tergite with a pair of long processes .................................................................. 2
- Posterior margin of tenth abdominal tergite obviously concave, without a pair of long processes; apical margin fused with supra-anal plate ..................................................................................................................................................... 5
2 Processes of tenth abdominal tergite nearly same or longer than cerci, body comparatively larger............................ 3
- Processes of tenth abdominal tergite much shorter than cerci, body smaller ............................................................... 4
3 Cerci with two apical spines, ventral spine long, dorsal one short and strong ............................................................... .................................................................................................................. T. (Macroteratura) megafurcula (Tinkham)
- Cerci with three apical spines, the middle spine short and strong, other spines long (see Fig. 7) ................................. ............................................................................................................................ T. (Macroteratura) thrinaca sp. nov.
4 Processes of tenth abdominal tergite extending to apical edge of basal upper projection of cerci. Supra-anal plate somewhat narrow, with almost straight posterior edge provided with a pair of spines laterally (See Gorochov et al, 2005, Figs. 17 –23) .................................................................................. T. (Stenoteratura) subtilis Gorochov & Kang
- Processes of tenth abdominal tergite hardly extending to projection of apical edge of basal upper projection of cerci. Supra-anal plate comparatively broad, posterior edge with a pair of distinct angular projections between lateral spines (See Gorochov, 1993, Figs. 46–53).................................................. T. (Stenoteratura) yunnanea (Bey-Bienko)
5 Tenth abdominal tergite broad, basal half part of supra-anal plate with deep longitudinal furrow in center, apical half with a pair of projections .............................................................................................................................................. 6
- Tenth abdominal tergite narrow, apical half of supra-anal plate without projections...................................................7
6 Head and bottom of gena with rather broad longitudinal brown stripes. Basal part of supra-anal plate fused with tenth abdominal tergite, triangular, protruding .......................................... T. (Teratura) pulchella Gorochov & Kang
- Head light yellowish brown, vertex and lower frons dark. Supra-anal plate broad, anterior margin of basal part concave ........................................................................................................................... T. (Teratura) cincta (Bey-Bienko)
7 Apex of supra-anal plate with three dentelated protrusion. Basal part of cerci cylindrate, 2/3 subapical lamellar, curved forward ........................................................................................... T. (Megaconema) geniculata (Bey-Bienko)
- Apex of supra-anal plate without three dentelated protrusion...................................................................................... 8
8 Ventral lobe of cercus obviously broadened. Apical half of supra-anal plate with protruding earlike projection, lateral apices with some stout spines, subapical part with a pair of hastate-shaped projections ....................................... ............................................................................................................................. T. (Teratura) hastata Shi, Mao & Ou
- Ventral lobe of cercus narrow and twisted, apex constrictive. Supra-anal plate with a pair of cylindrical projections, lateral apices without any spines................................................................................ T. (Teratura) flexispatha sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Qiu, Ming & Shi, Fu-Ming, 2010, Remarks on the species of the genus Teratura Redtenbacher, 1891 (Orthoptera: Meconematinae) from China, pp. 43-50 in Zootaxa 2543 on page 44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.196712