Phryganogryllacris Karny, 1937

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22. Phryganogryllacris Karny, 1937 (杆蟋•属)

Phryganogryllacris: Karny, 1937 . Genera Insectorum, 206: 118; Liu, 1999. In: Huang. (Ed.). Fauna of I nsects Fujian Province of China. Vol. 1: 178; Otte, 2000. Orthoptera Species File 8: Gryllacrididae , Stenopelmatidae , Cooloolidae , Schizodactylidae , Anastostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae : 28; Gorochov, 2005. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 84(4): 806; Liu, Bi & Zhang, 2010 a. Orthoptera : Stenopelmatoidea . In: Xu & Ye. (Eds.) Insects of Fengyangshan National Nature Rreserve: 59; Tan, 2012. Orthoptera in the Bukit Timah and Central Catchment Nature Reserves (Part 2): Suborder Ensifera : 39; Li et al., 2014. Zoological Systematics, 39(4): 508; Li, Liu & Li, 2016a. Zootaxa, 4127(2): 376; Ingrisch, 2018. Zootaxa, 4510(1): 231; Cadena-Castañeda, 2019. Zootaxa, 4605(1): 89.

Type species: Phryganogryllacris phryganoides ( Haan, 1842) .

Diagnosis. Body small to large, slender or slightly robust, wings long or slightly reduced. Wings fully developed, surpassing apices of hind femora. Lateral margin of basal area on male ninth abdominal tergite with 1 pair of hooks, vary in shape, its apices directing outward; tenth abdominal tergite reduced, narrow stripe, sometimes with 1 pair of tuberculate processes; subgenital plate with robust styli elongate; genitalia entirely membranous. Apical area of female seventh abdominal sternite with 1 pair of simple copulatory depressions, but occasionally somewhat more complex; subgenital plate membranous or semi-membranous, basal area with some semicircular or transverse folds indistinctly separated from seventh abdominal sternite. Body yellowish, brownish or greenish, with hyaline or subhyaline on tegmina.

Species included. The genus with 46 species are described worldwide, and seventeen species are known to the Chinese fauna.