Agraeciini

Key to genera of described, fully-winged Australian Agraeciini 1. Fastigium of vertex short, sharp but not curved forward (Figs 2A, 3C, 6A, 6B)......................................2 Fastigium of vertex elongate, curved forward (Figs 10A, 12C); male subgenital plate with a tooth on each side adjacent to cercus (Figs 10M; 12P, Q).................................................. Barbaragraecia gen. et sp. nov. p. xx 2(1) Ovipositor ensiform, straight or gracefully upcurved......................................................... 3 Ovipositor falcate, either strongly directed upwards or gracefully arching......................................... 4 3(2) Colour green or brown, attenuate rainforest species; fore tibia with dark spots near auditory foramen........................................................................................... Greenagraecia gen. et sp. nov. p. xx Colour variable but not green; robust non-rainforest species; widespread in tropical Australia......... Nicsara Walker, p. xx 4(2) Colour straw brown or light grey brown often with blue-green lines on frons and genae; living in or around grasses............................................................................................ Secsiva Walker 1869 Colours variable but not as above........................................................................ 5 5(4) Stridulatory region of tegmen wholly concealed underneath posterior margin of pronotum…..........................6 Stridulatory region of tegmen exposed, not concealed by pronotum.............................................. 8 6(5). Head with dark brown stripes or lines beneath eyes (Figs 6A, C)................. .. Larifugagraecia Rentz & Su gen. nov. Head without stripes of markings on genae beneath eyes...................................................... 7 7(6) Size relatively small (Table 1); male phallic complex with titillator enclosed in a hood and not apically acute (Fig. 8J).............................................................................. Geoffagraecia gen. et sp. nov. p. xx Size generally larger; male phallic complex with titillator not enclosed in a hood, apically acute (see Rentz & Su 2019, Figs 4F, 6G). Bateman’s Bay, NSW north to Daintree, Qld, including coastal islands...................... Austrosalomona Rentz 8(5) Colours mostly green or greenish yellow. Moderately large tettigoniids known from Cairns to Cape York and adjacent islands.................................................................................... Goodangarkia Rentz Colours brown or reddish brown. Very large tettigoniids known only from Iron Range and northern Islands in Australia, widespread in the Pacific region............................................................. Salomona BlanchardPublished as part of Rentz, Dcf & Su, You Ning, 2020, Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae: New Fully-winged Agraeciini From Northeastern Australia (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Conocephalinae; Agraeciini), pp. 301-336 in Zootaxa 4743 (3) on page 331, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4743.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/368806

<p><strong>Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae: New Fully-winged Agraeciini From North-eastern Australia (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Conocephalinae; Agraeciini)</strong></p>

Four new genera including five new species are described. All are from north-eastern Queensland. Barbaragraecia comprises two new species. B. unicorn Rentz &amp; Su, gen. et sp. nov. (the type species) and B. richardsoni Rentz &amp; Su, sp. nov. Geoffagraecia is known from a single species, G. gwinganna Rentz &amp; Su, sp. nov. the type species. Greenagraecia Rentz &amp; Su, gen. et sp. nov. is known from two species, G. attenuata Rentz &amp; Su, gen. et sp. nov., the type species and G. cooloola Rentz &amp; Su, gen. et sp. nov.. The unrelated genus Nicsara Walker 1869 is discussed and species with falcate ovipositors are removed and placed in a new genus, Larifugagraecia Rentz &amp; Su gen. nov., with Nicsara spuria Redtenbacher 1891 designated as the type species. Two species are removed from Nicsara and placed in Larifugagraecia. These are N. cornuta (Redtenbacher 1891) and N. spuria. Other species remain in Nicsara until they can be further assessed. Biological and ecological notes accompany detailed descriptions of the new species along with many morphological illustrations. Illustrations also are provided for L. spuria gen. nov. A key to the described fully-winged Australian agraeciine genera is provided at the end of the paper. </jats:p

Salomona Blanchard 1853

&lt;i&gt;Salomona&lt;/i&gt; Blanchard 1853 &lt;p&gt; &lt;i&gt;Salomona&lt;/i&gt; was revised by Willemse (1959). Rentz and Balderson (1979) included &lt;i&gt;S. solida&lt;/i&gt; Walker in their catalogue of Australian Tettigoniidae. Cigliano &lt;i&gt;et al.&lt;/i&gt; (2019) include 81 species in &lt;i&gt;Salomona&lt;/i&gt; plus 10 subspecies. Ingrisch (1998) included several species of &lt;i&gt;Salomona&lt;/i&gt; in his monograph of the Agraeciini of the Oriental Region but no &lt;i&gt;Salomona&lt;/i&gt; species from the Australasian region was included. Here we describe a large species that seems to be confined to Iron Range, Qld, Map 1.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;i&gt;Salomona nori&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt; 3 Rentz &amp; Su, sp. nov.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Figs. 9&ndash;11, 12A&ndash;G, 13B, 14C); Table 2; Map 1&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; ANIC Number: &lt;i&gt;Salomona&lt;/i&gt; sp. 4&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Comments.&lt;/b&gt; Recent improvements in the roads, including ingress and egress, to Kutini-Payamu (Iron Range) in far north Queensland has resulted in an influx of tourists to the area, many of them with entomological interests. This coupled with the ease of photographing natural history images has resulted in many inquiries concerning a &ldquo;large, robust ferocious katydid that lives in tree holes. Tour guides have discovered this katydid on their night tours. Here we provide a name for the species and discuss a related species from Sunday Island, Qld. We present some notes on the taxonomic position, biology and ecology of the new species.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;i&gt;History.&lt;/i&gt; A single &lt;i&gt;Salomona&lt;/i&gt; species, &lt;i&gt;S. solida&lt;/i&gt; Walker, has been described form northeast Australia. No additional specimens have been encountered since the original description many years ago and there was conjecture that type specimens may have been mislabelled. It has appeared sparsely in the literature but the following virtually 3 We take pleasure in naming this species in honour of our colleague, Dr. Norihiro Ueshima. For over 40 years Dr. Ueshima has been the recipient of an annual shipment of tettigoniid testes from DCFR, mostly from Australian localities. He has provided detailed analyses of the material when requested.&lt;/p&gt;Published as part of &lt;i&gt;Rentz, Dcf &amp; Su, You Ning, 2019, Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae: Three New Species of Agraeciini From North-eastern Australia Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae; Conocephalinae; Agraeciini, pp. 283-305 in Zootaxa 4623 (2)&lt;/i&gt; on page 296, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4623.2.4, &lt;a href="http://zenodo.org/record/3255441"&gt;http://zenodo.org/record/3255441&lt;/a&gt