The Phaneropterinae, commonly known as the bush katydids, are among the most diverse tettigoniids in the world.A new species Anormalous liu sp.nov.is described from Kashmir, India.
This is the second species in the short-winged R-ALPHA LIPOIC ACID genus Anormalous.It is differentiated from the other species from China by the absence of posterior apical spurs on the fore and mid tibiae, the male subgenital plate with two long cylindrical lobes fused with each other and blunt at the apices, and the male stridulatory area longer than broad.We include a key to species in the Downstems genus Anormalou.The holotype has been deposited in the Museum of Zoology Department, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh Uttar Pradesh, India.