Revision on genus Xizicus Gorochov (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Meconematinae, Meconematini) with description of three new species form China
Author
Wang, Hanqiang
School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China. E-mail: kaili @ admin. ecnu. edu. cn
Author
Jing, Jun
School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China. E-mail: kaili @ admin. ecnu. edu. cn
Author
Liu, Xianwei
Shanghai Entomological Museum, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, 200032, China. E-mail: liuxianwei 2008 @ 163. com Corresponding author
Author
Li, Kai
School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China. E-mail: kaili @ admin. ecnu. edu. cn
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Zootaxa
2014
2014-09-16
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3861.4.1
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Xizicus
s. str.
Type
species:
Xiphidiopsis fascipes
Bey-Bienko, 1955
Body color variegated, dorsum of head with 4 dark longitudinal stripes, disc of pronotum usually covered by a wide dark brand with black lateral edges, tegmina with a distinct dark spot, hind femora with 3 latitudinal dark bands. Posterior margin of male 10
th
abdominal tergite with a single bifid process of which apex enlarged laterally, subgenital plate of male somehow convex at posterior margin between short styli. Hind margin of female subgenital plate rounded, ovipositor long and relative straight.
Diagnosis.
We have examined the specimens of
type
species before they dried, found the posterior marginal process of abdominal tergite 10 cleaving at the end tip, two parts pressing against each other ahead till the oblique site where the process breaks as in fig. 3. We regard it as a single process which bears a deep sulcus.
Species included:
Xizicus
(
Xizicus
)
fascipes
(
Bey-Bienko, 1955
)
,
Xizicus
(
Xizicus
)
proximus
Gorochov, 1998
,
Xizicus
(
Xizicus
)
kaltenbachi
Sänger & Helfert, 2006
,
Xizicus
(
Xizicus
)
daedalus
Gorochov, 2011
,
Xizicus
(
Xizicus
)
spinicauda
(
Sänger & Helfert, 1998
)