Acosmetura Liu, 2000

Su, Jie, Wang, Tingting & Shi, Fuming, 2025, One new species of the genus Acosmetura (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from Sichuan with description of the female of Xiphidiopsis (Euxiphidiopsis) spicula Su, An & Shi, 2023, Zootaxa 5627 (3), pp. 580-586 : 581

1. Acosmetura Liu, 2000

Acosmetura Liu, 2000 , Zoological Research, 21(3): 220.

Type species: Acosmetura brevicerca Liu, 2000 .

Generic characters. Body small. Pronotum short, posterior area of lateral lobe narrowing, humeral sinus absent. Tegmina short, completely covered by pronotum or slightly surpassing posterior margin of pronotum; hind wings absent. Hind tibia with 1 pair of dorsal apical spurs and 2 pairs of ventral apical spurs. Male tenth abdominal tergite with a small notch in the middle of posterior margin, subgenital plate broad; styli stout; genitalia sclerotized. Female subgenital plate with a membranous area near base, ovipositor strongly curved dorsally, dorsal and ventral margins smooth, apices of ventral valvulae often with some small teeth.