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
)
rammei
Karny, 1926
(
Figs. 48–50
)
Tachycines rammei
Karny, 1926
.
Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin.
, 12, 363.
Tachycines
(
Tachycines
)
rammei
Karny, 1937
.
Genera Insectorum.
, 206, 248.
Tachycines rammei
Jin
Xing- Bao & Xia Kai-Ling, 1994.
Jour. Orth. Res.
, 3, 18.
Diestrammena
(
Tachycines
)
rammei
Gorochov, 1998
.
Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie.
, 77 (1), 73–105.
Diestrammena
(
Tachycines
)
rammei
Rampini, Di Russo & Cobolli, 2008
.
Monografie Naturalistiche.
, 3, 130.
Description.
Male. Body medium sized. Vertex of head divided into conical tubercles. Legs elongate and slender; fore femora about 1.7 times as long as the pronotum, ventrally unarmed, internal genicular lobe with a small spine, external genicular lobe with 1 elongate movable spur; fore tibia ventrally with 2 external internal spurs. Mid femora with an elongate movable spur on the internal genicular lobe, ventrally unarmed; mid tibiae beneath with 2 external and 1 internal spur(s). Hind femora ventrally with 1–4 inner spines and without outer spines; hind tibiae above with 50–60 outer and inner spines respectively, arranged in groups. Super internal spur of hind tibia exceeding the dorso-apical spine of metatarsus (
Fig. 48
). Hind metatarsus keeled beneath. Epiphallus of male genitalia “A”-shaped, the upper end blunt (
Figs. 49–50
).
Female. Unknown.
Coloration.
Body and legs with the uniformly color, yellowish brown.
Measurements.
(length in mm) Body
♂
18.3; pronotum
♂
6.8; fore femora
♂
11.5; hind femora
♂
24.0.
Distribution.
China
(
Guangdong
).
Diagnosis.
This species is rather similar to
T.
(
T
.)
sichuanensis
sp. nov.
, but differs from the latter in that: hind femora beneath with 1–4 internal spines and hind tibiae above with 50–60 spines on each side.