Haplogryllacris Karny, 1937

Bian, Xun, Liu, Jing & Yang, Zizhong, 2021, Anotated Checklist of Chinese Ensifera: The Gryllacrididae, Zootaxa 4969 (2), pp. 201-254 : 209

4. Haplogryllacris Karny, 1937 (单蟋•属)

Haplogryllacris: Karny, 1937 . Genera Insectorum, 206: 98; Otte, 2000. Orthoptera Species File 8: Gryllacrididae , Stenopelmatidae , Cooloolidae , Schizodactylidae , Anastostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae : 22; Ingrisch, 2018. Zootaxa, 4510(1): 188; Cadena-Castañeda, 2019. Zootaxa, 4605(1): 85.

Type species: Haplogryllacris simplex (Walker, 1871) .

Diagnosis. Body medium to large. Head large and broad. Frons with obviously wrinkles or punctuations, clypeus at least with 2 large concavities, genae indistinct bulging. Fore and middle femora ventrally unarmed. Fore and middle tibiae with 4 pairs of long movable spine on ventral surface (excluding the apical spines), in length equal in size; middle tibiae dorsally with 1 internal apical spine; dorsal surface of hind tibiae almost flat, with normal dorsal spine on both margins. Meso- and Metasternum rounded. Male subgenital plate with well developed styli, between them with a narrowly lobate projection.

Discussion. In the catalogue of Jin & Xia (1994) and Liu & Xia (1994), all recorded the Haplogryllacris castanea ( Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888) distributed in China, but according the original information of type specimen provided by Brunner von Wattenwyl (1888; “Patria: Himalaja (c. m.).”) Karny (1929c:“ 1 male (Typus), coll. B r. v. W. Nr. 2710, Himalaya,Thorey, beiderseits gespannt.— 1 female (det. B r. v. W.), coll. B r. v. W. Nr. 5506, Hinterindien, Thorey, ungespannt.”), we thought the species hardly distributed in China.

Species included. The genus includes 7 species, one of which in China.