Agraeciini
Creators: name: Rentz, Dcf
name: Su, You Ning
name: Ueshima, Norihiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae

description: Key to known Australian brachypterous and/or micropterous Australian Agraeciine genera
1. Males and females micropterous or female apterous (e. g. Figs 2A, 11A).......................................... 4
1’ Males and females brachypterous (Figs 19A, 19B)........................................................... 2
2(1) Colour dark olive green, costal margin of tegmen with veins yellowish (Fig. 19E), internal margin of each tegmen meeting together to form a median longitudinal stripe on dorsum of pronotum (Fig. 19E). Ingrischagraecia Rentz, Su, Ueshima, 2012
2’ Not as above......................................................................................... 3
3(2’) Appearing lichen-like (Fig. 19G). Known from Atherton Tableland and Kuranda rainforests............................................................................................. Lichenagraecia Rentz, Su, Ueshima, 2012
3’ Not appearing lichen-like (e.g. Figs 19F, H). Tegmina bordering brachypterous to micropterous. Known from coastal central Queensland (Map 7.......................................... Timbarragraecia Gen nov. Rentz, Su, Ueshima, p. 34
4(1) Occurring in south-eastern Australia (Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales) (Figs 19A, B)......................................................................................... Coptaspis Redtenbacher, 1891
4’ Occurring in Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia ............................................. 5
5(4’) Lateral margins of pronotum spiny....................................................................... 6
5’ Lateral margins of pronotum not spiny.................................................................... 7.
6(5) Ventral surface of fore femur armed only on anterior margin. Fastigium of vertex represented as an elongate spine. Colour sexually dimorphic; males green (Fig. 19F), females brown. Occurring in Northern Territory, western Queensland and north-west Western Australia .......................................... Armadillagraecia Rentz, Su, Ueshima, Robinson 2010
6’ Ventral surface of fore femur armed on both margins. Fastigium of vertex represented as a blunt tooth............................................................................. Kapalgagraecia Rentz, Su, Ueshima, Robinson 2010
7(5’) Lateral margins of pronotum with a dark brown stripe on each side (Figs 17 A-C). Known from Tablelands of northern Queensland .............................................. Kokominiagraecia Gen nov. Rentz, Su, Ueshima, p. 30
7’ Lateral margins of pronotum lacking a dark brown stripe...................................................... 8
8(7’) Tegmina protruding from beneath pronotum and much shorter than length of pronotum (Table 2) (Figs 15A; 16A, B). Males straw brown, often darker near tip of abdomen. Both sexes with a dark brown median longitudinal stripe. Known from coastal rainforests of central Queensland (Map 4)........................ Cooloolagraecia Gen nov. Rentz, Su, Ueshima, p. 26
8’ Without above combination of characters.................................................................. 9
9(8’) Caudal portion of pronotal disk dark brown to black (Figs 9A), in. males. Known only from Glasshouse Mountains, Queensland (Map 4)…................................................... Ganiagraecia Gen nov. Rentz, Su, Ueshima, p. 17
9’ Caudal half of pronotum not contrasting with rest of disk in either sex.......................................... 10
10(9’) Colour predominantly green. Males with tegmina barely protruding from beneath pronotum; females with minute tegmina with yellow and black pattern (Fig. 19I). Known from rainforests of Daintree and mountains in and around Atherton Tableland............................................................... Miniagraecia Gen nov. Rentz, Su, Ueshima, 2012
10’ Without above combination of characters................................................................. 11
11(10’) Small robust katydids, dark brown or black. Living in dead twigs and rubble at base of eucalypts in Western Australia. (Map 6)........................................................ .. Latitatagraecia Gen nov. Rentz, Su, Ueshima, p. 23
11’ Straw brown or green katydids. Living in heath habitats in Western Australia and South Australia ..................... 12
12(11’) Small, green or brownish katydids. Males with odd extensions of tenth abdominal tergite (Figs 10E, 11B, 12B). Male cerci stout, not spiniform. Known from south-western Western Australia (Map 5)................................................................................................. Gwynnagraecia Gen nov. Rentz, Su, Ueshima, p. 19
12’ Larger brownish katydids. Males lacking modifications of tenth abdominal tergite. Male cerci variable, often very spiniform (Figs 2E, 2F, 3A, 4C) Known from a broad range of heath habitats in Western Australia and South Australian east of the Nullarbor Plain (Maps 1-3)....................................... Australiagraecia Gen nov. Rentz, Su, Ueshima, p. 8
description: Published as part of Rentz, Dcf, Su, You Ning & Ueshima, Norihiro, 2021, Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae: New short-winged Agraeciini from Australia (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Conocephalinae; Agraeciini), pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 5059 (2) on page 7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5602508