Apterolarnaca

<i>Apterolarnaca</i>

Apterolarnaca

Genus of cricket-like animals

Apterolarnaca[1] is a genus of Orthopterans, sometimes known as 'leaf-folding crickets' in the subfamily Gryllacridinae, tribe Ametrini and genus group Apotrechae Cadena-Castañeda, 2019. Records of occurrence are from southern China and Vietnam.[2]

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The prefix "Aptero-" means that these Orthopterans are similar to the genus Larnaca, but have secondarily evolved without wings (becoming apterous). There are a number of similar genera, described from Vietnam by AV Gorochov, and the Orthoptera Species File indicates that other locality records[2] and possibly other species have yet to be discovered in the Indo-China region.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists:

subgenus Apterolarnaca Gorochov, 2004
  1. Apterolarnaca apta Gorochov, 2004
  2. Apterolarnaca huanglianensis Bian & Lu, 2021
  3. Apterolarnaca nigrifrontis Bian & Shi, 2016
  4. Apterolarnaca quadrimaculata Bian & Shi, 2016
  5. Apterolarnaca truncatoloba (Li & Liu, 2015)
  6. Apterolarnaca ulla Gorochov, 2004
    type species (locality: Fan Si Pan Mountain, Sa Pa District, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam)
subgenus Bianigryllacris

Auth. Cadena-Castañeda, 2019; all from China

  1. Apterolarnaca biloba (Liu, Bi & Zhang, 2010)
  2. Apterolarnaca digitata (Liu & Bi, 2008)
  3. Apterolarnaca fallax (Liu & Bi, 2008)
  4. Apterolarnaca nigrigeniculata (Liu & Yin, 2002)
  5. Apterolarnaca parvospinus (Liu & Yin, 2002)
  6. Apterolarnaca quadrata (Li & Liu, 2015)
  7. Apterolarnaca tenuispinacia Lu, Zhang & Bian, 2022
  8. Apterolarnaca transversa (Liu, Bi & Zhang, 2010)
  9. Apterolarnaca trilobus (Bian & Shi, 2014)
  10. Apterolarnaca xinganensis Lu, Zhang & Bian, 2022

References

  1. [1]
    Gorochov AV (2004) Ent. Rev. 84(8): 914.
  2. [2]
    Orthoptera Species File (version 5.0: retrieved 30 December 2020)
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