Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea II: Review of the Dataminae Rehn & Rehn, 1939 (Phasmatodea: Heteropterygidae) of China, with descriptions of one new genus and four new species
Author
Wai-Chun, George Ho
text
Zootaxa
2013
3669
3
201
222
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3669.3.1
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1175-5326
222271
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Genus
Planispectrum
Rehn & Rehn, 1939
Type-species.
Platymorpha cochinchinensis
Redtenbacher, 1906: 46
[=
Planispectrum cochinchinensis
], by original designation.
=
Platymorpha
Redtenbacher, 1906: 46
. [Preoccupied by
Platymorpha
Jacoby, 1888 (Coleoptera)
, replacement name proposed by Rehn and Rehn 1939: 484]
=
Platyphasma
Uvarov, 1940: 116
. [Synonymised by Brock 1995: 96]
Diagnosis.
Smallest
Dataminae
. Unique from other genera by smaller size and flattened body. Antennae slightly longer than profemora, never surpassing apices of protibiae.
Notes.
Only two species are found in the southern
China
.
Planispectrum hongkongense
Zompro, 2004
from
Hong Kong
is the most northern distribution range of the genus.
Species included from
China
:
1.
Planispectrum hainanensis
(Chen & He, 2008: 359, fig. 322: A–C). [
China
(HN)] [
Pylaemenes
]
comb. nov.
2.
Planispectrum hongkongense
Zompro, 2004: 235
, figs. 12: 5 & 135: f. [
China
(
HK
)]