New taxa of the tribe Meconematini from South-Pacific and Indo-Malayan Regions (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Meconematinae)
Author
Jin, Xingbao
Author
Liu, Xianwei
Author
Wang, Hanqiang
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-05-07
4772
1
1
53
journal article
22332
10.11646/zootaxa.4772.1.1
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1175-5326
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49)
Pseudoteratura
(
Pseudoteratura
)
elaphocerca
(
Karny, 1926
,
Xiphidiopsis
) comb. n.
1♀
:
MALAY
PEN.: SE
Pahang
/
Rompin Mining Co.
/
Railway Track
,
45km
/
2.III.1961
;
K.J. Kuncheria
/
Collector
/
BISHOP
Note.
This female with subgenital plate long rectangle, posterior margin slightly concaved in middle; ovipositor rather long, thin and straight, with acute apex, which agrees with Karny’s figure (1926: 132) quite well.
Based on male morphology of
Xiphidiopsis elaphocerca
Karny, 1926
, the elongated epiproct, the proper generic status of this species should not be in
Xiphidiopsis
, apparently is better to be in
Pseudoteratura
(
Pseudoteratura
)
than in
Dinoteratura
, which bears indistinct male epiproct, though pronotum disc without brown and/or yellowish median stripe in dried specimen, male cerci rather simple.