Euconocephalus Karny, 1912

Shah, Muzamil Syed & Usmani, Mohd Kamil, 2022, The Notched-frons Katydids of Kashmir (Jammu and Kashmir) India: new records and a new species of Euconocephalus (Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae Copiphorini), Zootaxa 5128 (2), pp. 284-294 : 285-286

Genus Euconocephalus Karny

Conocephalus (Euconocephalus) Karny 1907: 39 . Type species: Locusta acuminata Fabricius by original designation.

Euconocephalus Karny : Karny, 1912: 33. (Elevated to generic status.)

Diagnosis: Body slender and medium to large in size. The colour is green or yellowish brown. The fastigium extends beyond the base of the antennae and is separated from the fastigium of frons by a notch with or without a tubercle at the base of the fastigium. Spherical or oval eyes. Pronotum with or without lateral carinae, flat pronotal disc, slightly inclining lateral lobes, and prominent humeral sinus 6 pairs of ventral spines on the fore and mid tibia. Two pairs of ventral spurs and a single pair of dorsal spines on the hind tibia. Wings are highly developed, with a tegmina that is longer than the hind wings but does not extend past them, surpassing the genicular lobes of the hind femur. Two incurved apical teeth on male cerci. Ovipositor is long, straight, or curved; ovipositor length is shorter or longer.

Key to Indian species of Euconocephalus Karny, 1907

1) Fastigium of vertex relatively short....................................................................... 2

- Fastigium of vertex relatively long.........................................................................3

2) Lateral carina on pronotum absent, male stridulatory file with 68 teeth....... Euconocephalus pallidus ( Redtenbacher, 1891)

3) Lateral carinae of pronotum present…......................................................................4

4) Tegmina reaching beyond the middle of hind tibiae and as long as ovipositor, stridulatory file with 76 teeth.................................................................. .... Euconocephalus budaunensis ( Farooqi and Usmani, 2018)

- Tegmina reaching middle of hind tibiae, and longer than the ovipositor.......................................... 3

5) Stridulatory file of male with 72 teeth, lateral carinae of pronotum absent, length of ovipositor longer than the hind femur, ovipositor slightly bent upwards................................ Euconocephalus indica (Farooqi and Usmani, 2019)

- Stridulatory file of male with 76 teeth; length of ovipositor shorter than the hind femur, ovipositor straight.................................................................................. Euconocephalus incertus ( Walker, 1869)

6) Stridulatory file of male with curved with 68 teeth, male last abdominal tergite with deep incision........................................................................................ Euconocephalus nasutus ( Thunberg, 1815)

- Stridulatory file of male curved with 58 teeth, male last abdominal tergite with shallow incision................................................................................................. Euconocephalus farooqii sp. nov.