Pseudepitettix Modified
Creators: name: Huang, Chao-Mei
name: Deng, Wei-An
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tetrigidae
Pseudepitettix

description: Key to Chinese species of Pseudepitettix Modified from Deng (2020).
1. Median carina of pronotum distinctly arch-like before shoulders and suddenly depressed to straight behind shoulders in profile (Figure 1A–B) (Distribution: China).................................................. P. convexa Deng, sp. nov.
- Median carina of pronotum slightly arch-like or straight in profile............................................... 2
2. Pronotal surface coarse, interspersed with dense protuberances or netted keels and notchs............................ 3
- Pronotal surface smooth, body surface interspersed with granules............................................... 5
3 In dorsal view, anterior margin of pronotum angularly projecting; apex of hind pronotal process rounded (Figure 4A–B) (Distribution: China)........................................................... P. nigritibis Zheng & Jiang, 2000
- In dorsal view, anterior margin of pronotum truncate; apex of hind pronotal process with weak excision................. 4
4. In lateral view, frontal ridge and vertex forming an obtuse rounded shape; pronotum with interhumeral carinae (Figure 4C–D) (Distribution: China)................................................... P. linaoshanensis Liang & Jiang, 2004
- In lateral view, frontal ridge and vertex forming a right angle shape; pronotum without interhumeral carinae (Figure 4E–F) (Distribution: China)..................................................... P. torulosinota (Zheng & Lin, 2016)
5. Width of vertex between eyes 2.3 times width of compound eye; in dorsal view, anterior margin of pronotum angularly projecting................................................................................................. 6
- Width of vertex between eyes 0.8–1.3 or 2.8 times width of compound eye; in dorsal view, anterior margin of pronotum truncate................................................................................................ 7
6 Interhumeral carina of pronotum absent; middle femora with straight ventral margins (Figure 4G–H) (Distribution: China)......................................................................... P. guibeiensis Zheng & Jiang, 1995
- Pronotum with one pair of interhumeral carinae between shoulders; middle femora with undulated ventral margins (Figure 4I–J) (Distribution: Thailand)..................................... P. pimkarnae Storozhenko & Dawwrueng, 2014
7. Width of vertex between eyes 2.8 times width of compound eye; apex of hind pronotal process truncate (Figure 4K–L) (Distribution: China).................................................................. P. yunnanensis Zheng, 1995
- Width of vertex between eyes 0.8–1.3 times width of compound eye; apex of hind pronotal process rounded............. 8
8. Width of vertex between eyes 0.8 times width of compound eye; lateral carinae of pronotum obviously constricted backward after shoulders (Figure 5A–B) (Distribution: China)...................................... P. strictivertex Deng, 2020
- Width of vertex between eyes 1.3 times width of compound eye; lateral carinae of pronotum straight and not constricted backward after shoulders (Figure 5C–D) (Distribution: China)................................ P. hainanensis Deng, 2020
description: Published as part of Huang, Chao-Mei & Deng, Wei-An, 2021, Description of a new species of the genus Pseudepitettix Zheng (Orthoptera Tetrigoidea: Cladonotinae) from China, pp. 182-191 in Zootaxa 4990 (1) on pages 183-184, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4990.1.12, http://zenodo.org/record/4982616