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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journal article
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Tachycines
(
Tachycines
)
svenhedini
Karny, 1933
Tachycines svenhedini
Karny, 1933
.
Ark. Zool. A.
, 26 (2), 1.
Tachycines
(
Tachycines
)
svenhedini
Storozhenko, 1990
.
Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie.
, 69 (4), 846.
Tachycines svenhedini
Jin
, X-, Bao, Xia, K-, Ling, 1994.
Jour. Orth. Res.
, 3, 18.
Description.
Male. Body medium sized. Vertex of head divided into conical tubercles. Legs elongate and slender; fore femora about 1.8 times as long as the pronotum, ventrally unarmed, internal knee lobe with a small spine, external genicular lobe with 1 elongate movable spur; fore tibia ventrally with 2 external and 1 internal spur(s). Mid femora with an elongate movable spur on the internal and genicular lobe, ventrally unarmed; mid tibiae ventrally with 1 external and 1 internal spur. Hind femora ventrally with 6–7 inter spines and without outer spines; hind tibiae above with 65–70 outer and inner spines respectively, arranged in groups. Super internal spur of hind tibiae almost at the position of the dorso-apical spine of metatarsus. Hind metatarsus keeled ventrally.
Female. Unknown.
Coloration.
Body dark brown with stripes. Face with 4 black longitudinal stripes. Legs with black annular stripes.
Measurements.
(length in mm) Body
♂
15.0; pronotum
♂
5.5; fore femora
♂
10.3 hind femora
♂
18.5.
Distribution.
China
(
Gansu
).
Diagnosis.
This species is rather similar to
T
. (
T
.)
bilobata
sp. nov.
and
T
. (
T
.)
karnyi
sp. nov.
, but differs from the latter in that: hind femora with 6–7 internal spines beneath; distributed in Gansu of China.