Divided the genus Tachycines Adelung (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae; Aemodogryllini) from China
Author
Qin, Yanyan
Author
Wang, Hanqiang
Author
Liu, Xianwei
Author
Li, Kai
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-01-22
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Tachycines
(
Tachycines
)
borealis
(Cui et Liu, 2013)
(
Figs. 56–60
)
Diestrammena
(
Tachycines
)
borealis
Cui et Liu, 2013
.
Insects of Helanshan Region
of
Inner Mongolia
, 46–47 pp, figs.13.A–D.
Description.
Male. Body small to medium sized. Vertex of head divided into conical tubercles. Legs elongate and slender; fore femora about 1.5 times as long as the pronotum, beneath unarmed, internal genicular lobe with a small spine, external genicular lobe with 1 elongate movable spur; fore tibiae ventrally with 2 external and 2 internal spurs. Mid femora with an elongate movable spur on the internal and genicular lobe, ventrally unarmed; mid tibia ventrally with 2 external and internal spurs. Hind femur ventrally with 1–3 inner spines and without outer spines; hind tibia dorsally with 48–52 outer and inner spines respectively, arranged in groups. Super internal spur of hind tibia not exceeding the dorso-apical spine of metatarsus (
Fig. 57
). Hind metatarsus keeled beneath. Epiphallus of male genitalia trapezoidal and with denticles all round, the upper end concave and the ventral apex truncated (
Figs. 58–59
).
Female. Subgenital plate triangular and the apex blunt (
Fig. 60
). Ovipositor longer than the half hind femora.
Coloration.
Body light brown with black or brown stripes. Face with 2 dark longitudinal stripes. Pronotum with 2 dark brown stripes (
Fig. 56
).
Measurements.
(length in mm) Body
♂
15.0,
♀
15.0; pronotum
♂
6.0,
♀
6.0; fore femora
♂
9.5,
♀
10.0; hind femora
♂
18.0,
♀
15.0; ovipositor 12.0.
Material examined.
2♂♂
,
Helanshan
,
Ningxia
,
1982-VII
, collected by
Ren Guo-Dong
et al.
;
1♂
2♀♀
,
Shuimogou
,
Helanshan
,
Inner Mongolia
, alt.
2350m
,
2010-VI-30
~
VIII-11
, collected by
Cui
Feng-Li et
Zhang Xufeng.
Distribution.
China
(
Ningxia
,
Inner
Mongolia
).
Diagnosis.
This species is rather similar to
T
. (
T
.)
chinensis
Storozhenko, 1990
but differs from the latter in that: fore femora without spines beneath; epiphallus of male genitalia trapezoidal and with denticles all round, the upper end concave and the lower end almost truncated.
Etymology.
The specific epithet refers to the boreal district where this species occurs.