Key to the species and subspecies Sphingonotus Fieb in Karaj and vicinity

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Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

Abstract

In an investigation on banded wing grasshoppers of southern slop of Alborz mountains, 13 species and subspecies of Sphingonotus were collected from Karaj geographical region. In identifying grasshopper species certain male genitalia such as epiphallus shapes, size and shape of lateral plates and its projections, ancorae, lophi and oval sclerites were considered, also general appearance such as size, foveolae, fastigium, size of pronotum, existence and situation of median and lateral carinae, wing venation and coloration, size and color of hind femur and hind tibia, size and shape of tympanal organ considered.

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