Anormalous liu, Shah 1 & Usmani 1, 2021

Shah 1, Muzamil Syed & Usmani 1, Mohd Kamil, 2021, Anormalous liu sp. nov.: a first record and a new species of the genus Anormalous Liu, 2011 (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae) from India, ZooKeys 1078, pp. 49-55 : 49

Anormalous liu sp. nov

Figures 1-4 , 5-13 , 14-21

Description.

Male: Small sized body, eyes large and bulging outwards, antenna long and flexible, light green, fastigium dorsally sulcate with conical apex, narrower than first antennal segment. Pronotum saddle shaped; lateral lobe of pronotum distinctly longer than high. Pronotal disc with prozona smooth and metazona flat, without lateral carinae. Lateral lobe of pronotum with shallow humeral sinus. Tegmen short not surpassing the abdomen with longitudinal veins well developed, apex rounded; hind wings not well developed and shorter than tegmen. Fore tibia with two rows of 9 evenly- distributed spines ventrally; mid tibia with 12 spines ventrally and 6 dorsally; prosternum unarmed; mesosternum and metasternum with two more or less rounded lobes. Male last abdominal tergite rounded with a shallow depression; cerci long and cylindrical with pointed apex. Male subgenital plate elongated with two long lobes attached together; small notch at anterior end; apical end without distinct styli.

Female: Last abdominal tergite rounded without any incision; subgenital plate small, conical; epiproct long and tongue- shaped; cerci small, slender tapering toward the end; ovipositor long and weekly curved, with small teeth at distal end.

Remarks.

The new species differs from the only other species, Anormalous zhangi Liu (2011), as follows: male subgenital plate with two long cylindrical lobes fused with each other, blunt at the apices (Fig. 10 ), male stridulatory area longer than broad (Fig. 13 ), and absence of posterior apical spurs on fore and mid tibiae.

Distribution.

India, Kashmir

Etymology.

The name of the species is given after Chun-Xiang Liu who described the genus Anormalous .

Material examined.

Holotype: Male. India: Jammu and Kashmir; Kashmir, Kupwara, (34.5262°N, 74.2546°E), 01 male, 16.08.2021, on grass, collected by Muzamil Syed Shah deposited in Museum of Zoology Department , Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh Uttar Pradesh, India.

Paratype: Female : India : Jammu and Kashmir; Kashmir, Baramulla, Gulmarg (34.0484°N, 74.3805°E), two females, 20.08.2021, on grass, collected by Muzamil Syed Shah deposited in Museum of Zoology Department , Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh Uttar Pradesh, India .

Figures

Figures 1 - 4. Anormalous liu sp. nov. 1 - 2 Holotype male and 2 - 3 paratype female.

Figures 5 - 13. Characters of the holotype male Anormalous liu sp. nov. 5 head lateral 6 lateral view of pronotum 7 dorsal view of pronotum 8 fastigium 9 sternum 10 subgenital plate 11 cerci 12 male last tergite 13 tegmen.

Figures 14 - 21. Anormalous liu sp. nov. 14 male stridulatory file 15 female tegmen 16 female last tergite 17 female subgenital plate 18 ovipositor 19 fore tibia 20 mid tibia 21 hind femur.