Orthelimaea is a genus of Asian bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae. Species in this genus are found in India, Indo-China, and Malesia.[2]

Orthelimaea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Phaneropterinae
Tribe: Elimaeini
Genus: Orthelimaea
Karny, 1926[1]
Type species
Elimaea leeuwenii
Karny, 1926
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Description

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Orthelimaea is now considered a separate genus in the tribe Elimaeini, having been described as a subgenus of the genus Elimaea.[1] Species in this genus are characterised by the straight fore femora, whereas those of Elimaea and the genus Ectadia are "more or less curved". Ovipositors of the latter genera are similar, but are quite dissimilar in the type species of Orthelimaea, where the ovipositor has much larger denticles (tooth-like projections).[3]

Species

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The Orthoptera Species File includes:[2]

  1. Orthelimaea bezborodovi Gorochov & Storozhenko, 2010
  2. Orthelimaea carispina (Ingrisch & Shishodia, 1998)
  3. Orthelimaea flavolineata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878)
  4. Orthelimaea himalayana (Ingrisch, 1990)
  5. Orthelimaea insignis (Walker, 1869)
  6. Orthelimaea kanburi Ingrisch, 2011
  7. Orthelimaea klinghardti (Krausze, 1903)
  8. Orthelimaea leeuwenii (Karny, 1926)
    type species (locality: near Bangkok, Thailand)
  9. Orthelimaea minor (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891)
  10. Orthelimaea securigera (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878)
  11. Orthelimaea trapezialis Liu, 2011
  12. Orthelimaea volsella Ingrisch, 2011

References

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  1. ^ a b Karny (1926) Treubia 9: 23.
  2. ^ a b Cigliano, M.M.; H. Braun; D.C. Eades; D. Otte. "genus Orthelimaea Karny, 1926". Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  3. ^ Gorochov AV (2009) New and little known katydids of the tribe Elimaeini (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae) Trudy Russk. Entomol. Obshch. 80(1): 112.
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