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Li, Xuejuan, Liu, Yuxin, Lin, Liliang (2021): Comparative mitogenomes and phylogenetic analysisreveal taxonomicrelationship of genera Teredorus and Systolederus (Orthoptera, Tetrigoidea). Zootaxa 5027 (1): 127-135, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5027.1.7

Key to species in the genus Aalatettix 1 Width of vertex 2.0��� 2.8 times of an eye; apex of hind process of pronotum with a triangular concave..................... 2 - Width of vertex 1.6���1.7 times of the width of an eye; apex of hind process of pronotum narrow rounded................ 4 2 Width of vertex 2.8 times of an eye; vertex and frontal ridge forming an obtuse rounded angle in profile; upper margin of pronotum arched before shoulders but undulated behind that; anterior margin of pronotum almost straight; hind process of pronotum reaching apex of hind femur; lower margin of mid femur undulated ... A. lativertex Zheng - Width of vertex 2.0 times of an eye; vertex and frontal ridge forming a right or obtuse angle in profile; upper margin of pronotum straight or extremely arc-shape protuberant; anterior margin of pronotum obtuse protruded; hind process of pronotum reaching two-thirds or three-fourths of hind femur; lower margin of mid femur straight............... 3 3 Vertex and frontal ridge forming a right angle in profile; upper margin of pronotum almost straight; lateral keels of prozona parallel; with a pair of short longitudinal keels between shoulders................ A. longipulvillus Zheng & Mao - Vertex and frontal ridge forming blunt circle in profile; upper margin of pronotum extremely arc-shape protuberant; lateral keels of prozona contracted backward; without a pair of short longitudinal keels between shoulders............... ..................................................................................................................................... A. gibbosa Zheng, Cao & Chen 4 Upper margin of pronotum extremely arc-shape protuberant in profile; vertex and frontal ridge forming blunt circle or rounded in profile..................................................................................................................................................... 5 - Upper margin of pronotum almost straight or arched before shoulders but straight behind that in profile; vertex and frontal ridge forming blunt circle or rectangle in profile.............................................................................................. 6 5 Anterior margin of vertex arc-shape; frontal ridge slightly concave before lateral ocelli; antennae located between lower margin of eyes, 14 segmented, length of a segment in the middle 4 times as its width; hind process of pronotum reaching four-fifths of hind femur; three pulvilli of the first segment of hind tarsi gradually larger in turn; hind tibia black brown............................................................................................... A. cangshanensis Zheng, Lin & Zhang - Anterior margin of vertex straight; frontal ridge distinctly concave before lateral ocelli; antennae located below lower margin of eyes, 16 segmented, length of a segment in the middle 2.5 times as its width; hind process of pronotum reaching almost apex of hind femur; 3 rd pulvillus of the first segment of hind tarsi extremely large, 1 st pulvillus smaller, 2 nd pulvillus extremely small; hind tibia black, with two light rings in the middle ..... A. nyalamensis sp. nov. 6 Vertex and frontal ridge forming a right angle in profile; longitudinal furrow of frontal ridge as wide as the first segment of antennae; upper margin of pronotum arched before shoulders but straight behind that in profile; hind process of pronotum reaching two-thirds of hind femur ...................................................... A. leshanensis Zheng, Cao & Chen - Vertex and frontal ridge forming rounded in profile; longitudinal furrow of frontal ridge wider than the first segment of antennae; upper margin of pronotum almost straight in profile; hind process of pronotum reaching four-fifths of hind femu ................................................................................................................................ A. hupinshanensis Zheng, Published as part of Zheng, Zhemin & Lin, Liliang, 2015, A review of the genus Aalatettix with the description of a new species from China (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae), pp. 488-492 in Zootaxa 3986 (4) on page 489, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.4.8, http://zenodo.org/record/233828

Zheng, Zhemin, Lin, Liliang (2015): A review of the genus Aalatettix with the description of a new species from China (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae). Zootaxa 3986 (4): 488-492, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3986.4.8

Aalatettix Zheng & Mao, 2002 Aalatettix Zheng & Mao, 2002. Journal of Shaanxi Normal University, 30 (1): 93. Zheng, 2005. Fauna of Tetrigoidea from Western China, 346. Deng, Zheng and Wei, 2007, Fauna of Tetrigoidea from Yunnan and Guangxi, 312. Type species: Aalatettix longipulvillus Zheng & Mao, 2002 Diagnosis. Body small. Vertex slightly protruding before anterior margin of eyes, with median carina, width of vertex 1.6���2.8 times of width of an eye; frontal ridge straight before lateral ocelli in profile, slightly protuberant between antennae; longitudinal furrow of frontal ridge narrow. Antennae filiform, inserted between lower margins of eyes. Pronotum ridgelike; anterior margin obtuse, apex of hind process narrowly rounded or with a concave in the middle; posterior margin of lateral lobes of pronotum with 2 concaves, the winged one extremely shallow, apex of posterior angles rounded. Wings absent or extremely degenerated, covered by pronotum. First segment of posterior tarsi longer than the third., Published as part of Zheng, Zhemin & Lin, Liliang, 2015, A review of the genus Aalatettix with the description of a new species from China (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae), pp. 488-492 in Zootaxa 3986 (4) on page 488, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.4.8, http://zenodo.org/record/233828, {"references":["Zheng, Z. M. & Mao, B. Y. (2002) A survey of Tetrigoidea from north western region of Yunnan, China. J ournal of Shaanxi Normal University, 30 (1), 89 - 98.","Zheng, Z. M. (2005) Fauna of Tetrigoidea from Western China. Science Press, Beijing, 501 pp.","Deng, W. A., Zheng, Z. M. & Wei, S. Z. (2007) Fauna of Tetrigoidea from Yunnan and Guangxi. Science and Technology Press, Nanning, 458 pp."]}