''Orthelimaea'' is a genus of Asian bush crickets in the subfamily

Phaneropterinae The Phaneropterinae, the sickle-bearing bush crickets or leaf katydids, are a subfamily of insects within the family Tettigoniidae. Nearly 2,060 species in 85 genera throughout the world are known. They are also known as false katydids or round-h ...

. Species in this genus are found in India, Indo-China, and Malesia.

Description

''Orthelimaea'' is now considered a separate genus in the tribe

Elimaeini The Phaneropterinae, the sickle-bearing bush crickets or leaf katydids, are a subfamily of insects within the family Tettigoniidae. Nearly 2,060 species in 85 genera throughout the world are known. They are also known as false katydids or round-h ...

, having been described as a subgenus of the genus '' Elimaea''. Species in this genus are characterised by the straight fore femora, whereas those of ''Elimaea'' and the genus ''

Ectadia ''Ectadia''Brunner von Wattenwyl (1878) ''Monographie der Phaneropteriden'' 14, 103. is a genus of Asian Tettigoniidae, bush crickets of the tribe Elimaeini (subfamily Phaneropterinae). Records are primarily from southern China and Indochina. S ...

'' are "more or less curved". Ovipositors of the latter genera are similar, but are quite dissimilar in the type species of ''Orthelimaea'', where the ovipositor has much larger denticles (tooth-like projections).Gorochov AV (2009) New and little known katydids of the tribe Elimaeini (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae) ''Trudy Russk. Entomol. Obshch.'' 80(1): 112.

Species

The ''Orthoptera Species File'' includes: # '' Orthelimaea bezborodovi'' Gorochov & Storozhenko, 2010 # '' Orthelimaea carispina'' (Ingrisch & Shishodia, 1998) # '' Orthelimaea flavolineata'' (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) # '' Orthelimaea himalayana'' (Ingrisch, 1990) # '' Orthelimaea insignis'' (Walker, 1869) # '' Orthelimaea kanburi'' Ingrisch, 2011 # '' Orthelimaea klinghardti'' (Krausze, 1903) # ''

Orthelimaea leeuwenii ''Orthelimaea'' is a genus of Asian Tettigoniidae, bush crickets in the subfamily Phaneropterinae. Species in this genus are found in India, Indo-China, and Malesia. Description ''Orthelimaea'' is now considered a separate genus in the tribe El ...

'' (Karny, 1926)
— type species (locality: near

Bangkok Bangkok, officially known in Thai language, Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estima ...

, Thailand) # '' Orthelimaea minor'' (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891) # '' Orthelimaea securigera'' (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) # '' Orthelimaea trapezialis'' Liu, 2011 # '' Orthelimaea volsella'' Ingrisch, 2011

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''O. leeuwenii'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q13966584 Phaneropterinae Tettigoniidae genera Orthoptera of Asia