Ruspolia lineosa (Walker, 1869)

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 : 292-293

Ruspolia lineosa

Figs. 35–42

Conocephalus lineosus Walker. 1869 . Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus. 2: 318, China.

Homoeocoryphus lineosus Karny. 1926 . Treubia 9(1–3): 254.

Ruspolia lineosa Jin & Xia, 1994 , Jour. Orth. Res. 3:33.

Synonyms: Conocephalus latipennis ( Walker 1869) : 378, and Conocephalus fuscipes ( Redtenbacher 1891) : 421.

Redescription

Female: Body medium or large size; green or dark brown in dorsal view while head in dorsal view is green or brown and in lateral view, green or dark brown; devoid of postocular stripe; in anterior view, face green or brown; mandible yellow or orange; clypeus and labrum of same color, brown or yellow; antenna orange; fastigium of vertex short, broadly rounded; fastigium of vertex 2.1-2.4 times as wide as first segment of antennae; notch between fastigium of vertex and the frons closed, ventrally without tubercule at the base; pronotum in dorsal view: prozona and metazoan green or brown; in lateral view, green or dark brown; dorsally pronotum sometimes with two lateral light stripes; pronotum without lateral carinae; lateral lobes of pronotum elongate, with distinct humeral sinus; tegmina green or brown, reaching the mid of hind tibia with broadly rounded apex; hind wings as long as tegmina; fore femora 1.2-1.3 times shorter than pronotum; prosternum bispinose, mesosternal and metasternal lobes more or less triangular; thoracic auditory spiracle large, oval, present under lateral lobe of pronotum with a small sub-apical tooth on posterior edge of spiracle and a weak tubercle at the mid anterior inner edge of spiracle; fore and mid tibiae brownish; lower side of hind femora with 1-8 external and 5-10 internal spines; hind femora with 6-8 outer and 8-9 inner ventral spinules; female subgenital plate triangular, with rounded excision at apex; ovipositor straight, slender and narrowing towards the apex, usually as long as hind femur.

Distribution: Bangladesh, China; India; Japan; Korea; Myanmar; Srilanka; Taiwan; Thailand.

Material examined: Female. India: Jammu and Kashmir; Kashmir, Pulwama (33.8600° N, 74.8289° E), 03 female, 23.08.2020, on grass, (coll. Muzamil Syed Shah) .

Morphometery (length in mm)