Eur. J. Entomol. 122: 344-358, 2025 | DOI: 10.14411/eje.2025.039

Taxonomic study of the genus Aphonoides (Orthoptera: Oecanthidae: Podoscirtinae) in ChinaOriginal article

Shu-Fei WEI ORCID...1, Dan WANG ORCID...1, Zhe-Yuan YU ORCID...1, Tao ZHANG ORCID...1, Pu GONG ORCID...2, *, Zhu-Qing HE ORCID...1, 3, *
1 School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, 200241 Shanghai, China; e-mails: 2758296482@qq.com (SFW), 848305177@qq.com (DW), 51201300032@stu.ecnu.edu.cn (ZYY), 261889691@qq.com (TZ), zqhe@bio.ecnu.edu.cn (ZQH)
2 Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 310051 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China; e-mail: pgong@cdc.zj.cn
3 Zhejiang Zhoushan Island Ecosystem Observation and Research Station, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, 200241 Shanghai, China

This study presents a comprehensive taxonomic revision of the genus Aphonoides Chopard, 1940 in China, integrating morphological examination with molecular phylogenetics. As a result, we describe a new species, A. ouyue He & Wei, sp. n., from China, and synonymize A. aspidoid Zheng et al., 2021, syn. n. with A. japonicus (Shiraki, 1930). We also upgrade A. medvedevi alius Gorochov, 2007 to species status as A. alius Gorochov, stat. n., remove A. tessellatus Chopard, 1969, A. punctatus (Haan, 1844) and A. fuscirostris (Chopard, 1969) from the Chinese fauna, and provide the first description of the genitalia for A. wuyiensis Yin & Zhang, 2001. Molecular analysis of the COI gene (658 bp), including Aphonoides and Mistshenkoana Gorochov, 1990, reconstructs a phylogenetic tree confirming that both genera are monophyletic. The results also strongly support the current morphological classification of Aphonoides.

Keywords: New species, crickets, molecular markers, morphological character

Received: January 28, 2025; Revised: September 9, 2025; Accepted: September 9, 2025; Published online: November 28, 2025  Show citation

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WEI, S., WANG, D., YU, Z., ZHANG, T., GONG, P., & HE, Z. (2025). Taxonomic study of the genus Aphonoides (Orthoptera: Oecanthidae: Podoscirtinae) in China. EJE, 122, Article 344-358. https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2025.039
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