Elbenia (Elbenia) serraticauda Hebard, 1922

Gorochov, A. V., 2023, Taxonomy of the katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from East Asia and adjacent islands. Communication 16, Far Eastern Entomologist 485, pp. 7-28 : 20

Elbenia (Elbenia) serraticauda Hebard, 1922

Figs 92–96

MATERIAL. Philippines: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Palawan I., southern part, environs of Quezon Town on western coast, secondary forest, at light, 4–5.III 2004, A. Gorochov ( ZIN) .

DESCRIPTION. Female (nov.). General appearance similar to that of other species of this genus. Coloration uniformly greenish (without any darker spots on tegmina) but with light brown apices of spines on legs. Tegmina with dorsal fields having dense and almost uniformly reticular venation; last tergite with rather wide but moderately short posteromedian angular projection having a pair of thin and short spinules (these spinules significantly smaller than in male: Fig. 96); epiproct and paraprocts almost as in male of all species previously described here; cerci much smaller than in male and simple (not specialized, fusiform and with very thin and acute apical parts); last abdominal sternite with distinct roundly angular posteromedian notch (Fig. 95); genital plate small and almost oval-rhombic but with narrowly truncated apex (Fig. 95, 96); ovipositor as in Fig. 96.

Length (in mm). Body 25; body with wings 47; pronotum 5.4; tegmina 36; hind femora 21; ovipositor 10.

REMARK. The above-mentioned male (Figs 92–94) is practically identical to the original description of this species ( Hebard 1922: “ Puerto Princesa ” in Palawan I.). Here this species is recorded from another locality on the same island.