Mesagraecia laticauda ( Karny, 1926 ) Ingrisch & Tan, 2012

Ingrisch, Sigfrid & Tan, Ming Kai, 2012, New Taxa Of Agraeciini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae) From Singapore And Malaysia With A Review Of The Genus Jambiliara, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (1), pp. 137-155 : 148

Mesagraecia laticauda ( Karny, 1926) , new combination

Scytocera laticauda Karny, 1926: 149

Jambiliara (?) laticauda Ingrisch, 1998: 57

Material examined. — Holotype: female ( BMNH), Malaysia: Perak, Batang Padang, Jor camp, 2000 ft., nocturnal, coll. H. M. Pendlebury, 2 Jun.1923.

Discussion. — The species differs from Jambiliara by the pronotum that is not saddle-shaped and by the overall appearance with narrow, shortened tegmina not reaching the hind knees and the dorso-ventrally higher ovipositor. It agrees in general habitus with Mesagraecia Ingrisch, 1998 with the exception that the disc of pronotum is rugose and less prolonged behind; the paranota are less deep and subsmooth in marginal area; and the ovipositor is more robust and more strongly dorso-ventrally expanded. The species has a more slender appearance than the other two species of the genus from Thailand and Vietnam. On the other hand, the rather narrow, a little abbreviated tegmina with truncate apex and the unsclerotised, fully membranous subgenital plate are characteristic for Mesagraecia . Jambiliara laticauda is thus transferred to the genus Mesagraecia . Unfortunately, the male is still unknown.