Macroteratura Explained

Macroteratura is a genus of Asian bush crickets belonging to the tribe Meconematini in the subfamily Meconematinae. The genus was erected by AV Gorochov in 1993 as a subgenus of Teratura (Macroteratura).^[1] Species also have been described previously in Kuzicus (Macroteraturus)^[2] before being placed in this genus in 2020;^[3] records are from China and Vietnam (but the known distribution may be incomplete).

Species

The Orthoptera Species File lists the following species:^[4]

subgenus Macroteratura Gorochov, 1993

1. Macroteratura inospina Chen, Cui & Chang, 2020
2. Macroteratura megafurcula (Tinkham, 1944)
   - type species (as Xiphidiopsis megafurcula Tinkham); locality: Maan Chi Shan, Guangdong, SE China
3. Macroteratura sinica (Bey-Bienko, 1957)
4. Macroteratura thrinaca (Qiu & Shi, 2010)

subgenus Stenoteratura Gorochov, 1993

1. Macroteratura bhutanica (Ingrisch, 2002)
2. Macroteratura janetscheki (Bey-Bienko, 1968)
3. Macroteratura kryzhanovskii (Bey-Bienko, 1957)
4. Macroteratura twinsloba Liu, 2020
5. Macroteratura yunnanea (Bey-Bienko, 1957)

Notes and References

1. Gorochov AV (1993) Zoosystematica Rossica 2(1): 70. link to AVG papers
2. Liu X-W (2004) In Liu, X.-W. & Haisheng Yin. Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea and Stenopelmatoidea. Insects from Mt. Shiwandashan Area of Guangxi 102.
3. Jin X, Liu X-W, Hanqiang Wang (2020) Zootaxa 4772(1): 42.
4. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1135012 Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 22 August 2022)