Athaumaspis Explained

Athaumaspis is a genus of Asian bush crickets belonging to the tribe Meconematini in the subfamily Meconematinae. The genus was erected by Wang et al.^[1] after a revision of the genus Thaumaspis; species are found in Tibet, China, and Vietnam.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File lists the following species:^[2]

1. Athaumaspis bifurcatus (Liu, Zhou & Bi, 2010) - Fengyangshan National Nature Reserve, Zhejiang, China
2. Athaumaspis minutus Wang & Liu, 2014 - type species locality: Mount Lang Bian, Vietnam
3. Athaumaspis tibetanus Wang & Liu, 2014 - Tibet

Notes and References

1. Wang H, Liu X-W (2014) In Wang, Hanqiang, X.-W. Liu & Kai Li. A synoptic review of the genus Thaumaspis Bolívar (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Meconematinae) with the description of a new genus and four new species. ZooKeys 443: 22.
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1218846 Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 20 August 2022)