Ornebius Guerin-Meneville 1844
Creators: name: Wang, Ning
name: Che, Zhi-Yong
name: Ma, Li-Bin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Mogoplistidae
Ornebius

description: Key to the known species of Ornebius from China
1. Wingless; fore tibia without tympanum..................................................... O. apterus He, 2018
- Winged; fore tibia with internal tympanum................................................................. 2
2. Anterior margin of pronotal disc with distinctly protuberance................................. O. exserolimbus sp. n.
- Anterior margin of pronotal disc straight................................................................... 3
3. Tegmen with only a small portion exposed, and without black markings.......................................... 4
- Tegmen with black or brown markings.................................................................... 5
4. Body black; surrounding of the pronotum and hind femur covered with white scales.......... O. fuscicerci (Shiraki, 1930)
- Body yellow; posterior margin of pronotum covered with white scales.................... O. longipennis (Shiraki, 1930)
5. Tegmen slightly exposed; outer margin of posterior parts with black markings on each side... O. bimaculatus (Shiraki, 1930)
- Full-field or apical field of tegmen with black or brown markings............................................... 6
6. Tegmen black or brown throughout................................................. O. infuscatus (Shiraki, 1930)
- Apical field of tegmen with black or brown strip............................................................. 7
7. Head with a distinct red transverse groove with middle raised and sides sunken in front of pronotum.......................................................................................... O. carnificare He, Zhang & Ma, 2021
- Head broad and flattened and without visible transverse groove................................................. 8
8. The male phallic complex, clockwork-like; genitalia with spermatophore sac spiral................................ 10
- Characteristics of male genitalia different from the above...................................................... 9
9. Tongue-shaped epiphallus which covers most of the central lobe; central lobe of phallus with lateral valves dorsoventrally compressed with acute apex, ejaculatory duct with apex truncated and a little notched.......... O. fastus Yang & Yen, 2001
- Male phallus not as above, armed with strongly sclerotized, compressed internal sclerites with acute apex......................................................................................... O. kanetataki (Matsumura, 1904)
10. Lateral lobe of pronotum armed with abundant setae........................................................ 11
- Lateral lobe of pronotum without setae................................................................... 13
11. Lateral lobe of pronotum with white setae, covered with black and white scales.................. O. polycomus He, 2017
- Lateral lobe of pronotum armed with yellow setae and almost no scales......................................... 12
12. Supra-anal plate with distinct angular projections on both sides.......................... O. formosanus (Shiraki, 1911)
- Supra-anal plate trapezoidal without angular projections............................. O. lunam He, Zhang & Ma, 2021
13. Both head and pronotum yellow............................................. O. aurumalas He, Zhang & Ma, 2021
- Both head and pronotum reddish brown.................................................................. 14
14. Mirror well developed, length-to-width ratio of 2:3; hind tibia armed with three pairs of dorsal spurs...................................................................................... O. yunnanensis Wang, Zhang & Liu, 2020
- Length of mirror longer than the width; outer apical spurs of hind tibia three and inner apical spurs two... O. panda He, 2019
description: Published as part of Wang, Ning, Che, Zhi-Yong & Ma, Li-Bin, 2023, Ornebius exserolimbus Wang & Ma, sp. nov., a new species of Ornebius (Orthoptera: Mogoplistidae; Mogoplistinae) from China, pp. 75-81 in Zootaxa 5353 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/8426861