A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS TAMDAOTETTIX (ORTHOPTERA: RHAPHIDOPHORIDAE) FROM YUNNAN WITH A KEY TO CHINESE SPECIES
Author
Qin, Yanyan
Author
Wang, Hanqiang
Author
Li, Kai
text
Far Eastern Entomologist
2019
2019-08-05
387
1
6
http://dx.doi.org/10.25221/fee.387.1
journal article
10.25221/fee.387.1
2713-2196
7164924
Genus
Tamdaotettix
Gorochov, 1998
Tamdaotettix
Gorochov, 1998: 81
; Storozhenko & Dawwrueng, 2014: 289; Gorochov &
Storozhenko, 2015: 52; Qin
et al
., 2016: 339; Zhu
et al
., 2018: 294; Gorochov & Storozhenko,
2019: 151.
Type
species:
Tamdaotettix dilutus
Gorochov, 1998
, by original designation.
DIAGNOSIS. Body is smaller than in majority of the other genera of
Diestramimini
. Pronotum with dorsal edge arcuate and convex. Male posteromedian process of 7th abdominal tergite rather short; posteromedian process of 6th abdominal often angular or spine-like. Male paraproct simple. Male genitalia consists of six rather simple and completely membranous lobes (three dorsal and three ventral lobes; the ventrolateral lobes not very long and undivided). Female paraproct simple; upper valve of ovipositor with distinct dorsal notch near apex or without it.
Tamdaotettix
is most similar to the genus
Mimadiestra
Storozhenko et Dawwrueng, 2014
but differs from the latter in characters given in a key (Gorochov & Storozhenko, 2015).
COMPOSITION. There are 17 species known from
Laos
,
Vietnam
and South
China
. Up to now five species has been recorded from
Yunnan
,
Guizhou
and
Guangxi
provinces of
China
. One new species is described in present paper. A key to six Chinese species is given below.