Studies in Chinese Tettigoniidae: Recent discoveries of Meconematinae katydids from Xizang, China (Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae)
Author
Wang, Hanqiang
Author
Liu, Xianwei
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Zootaxa
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Grigoriora cheni
(
Bey-Bienko, 1955
)
comb. nov.
(
Figs. 8–10
)
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Xiphidiopsis cheni
:
Bey-Bienko, 1955
,
Zoologicheskii Zhurnal
, 34:1261;
Beier, 1966
,
Orthopterorum Catalogus
, 9:274;
Liu & Jin, 1994
,
Contributions from
Shanghai
Institute of Entomology
, 11:110;
Jin & Xia, 1994
,
Journal of
Orthoptera
Research
,
3:27;
Liu & Jin, 1999
,
Fauna of
Insects
Fujian Province
of
China
. Ƒol. 1.
:159; Liu, 2007,
The Fauna Orthopteroidea of
Henan
:480.
Xiphidiopsis zhejiangensis
: Zheng & Shi, 1995
,
Insects and macrofungi of Gutianshan,
Zhejiang
: 31.
Eoxizicus cheni
:
Liu & Zhang, 2000
,
Entomotaxonomia
, 22(3):159.
Eoxizicus
(
Eoxizicus
)
cheni
:
Liu, Zhou & Bi, 2010
,
Insects of Fengyangshan National Nature Reserve
, 82.
Diagnosis and discussion
: The description of this species was precise.
Bey-Bienko (1955)
treated it a
Xiphidiopsis
.
Gorochov (1993
,
1998
) did not include this species in his revisionary work on the tribe
Meconematini
. Liu (with
Zhang, 2000
) transferred it to
Eoxizicus
. In the present view, this species is more generally similar to
Xiphidiopsis
spp. owing to its uniform body colour, the genital segments (
Fig. 8
) similar to
Eoxizicus
. However, the pronotal stripes are absent, and genitalia of male bear a conical tubercle (
Fig. 10
) different from that of
Eoxizicus
species. This new combination seems to reconcile the conflict. The male genitalia of this species are not strongly sclerotized dorsally and the male subgenital plate is convex and not bifurcated apically (
Fig. 9
). Considering
Grigoriora
contains very different species possibly belonging to different subgenera, we believe this combination is justified.
Type
locality and preservation
:
Kuling town
,
Jiujiang
city,
Jiangxi province
; type specimens are kept in IZCAS.
Material examined
:
2♂♂
3♀♀
, Hot spring, Mount Huang,
Anhui province
, 1983.
IX.1
, leg. BI Dao-Ying, HE Xiu-Song & HE Jin-Chuan;
2♀♀
, Sangang village, Mount Wuyi,
Fujian province
, 1994.
VIII.27
~
IX.3
, leg. YIN Hai-Sheng & JIN Xing-Bao;
10♂♂
11♀♀
, Mount Tiantong, Ningbo city,
Zhejiang province
, 2010.
VII.18
~20, leg. LIU Xian-Wei, QIU Zhong-Liang & GAO Chao.
Distribution
:
China
(
Henan
,
Anhui
,
Hubei
,
Zhejiang
,
Jiangxi
,
Fujian
,
Guangdong
).