One new genus and two new species of the tribe Meconematini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from Yunnan, China
Author
Bian, Xun
Author
Xie, Guang-Lin
Author
Chang, Yan-Lin
Author
Shi, Fu-Ming
text
Zootaxa
2014
3793
2
286
290
journal article
45920
10.11646/zootaxa.3793.2.9
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Paraphlugiolopsis
Bian & Shi
, gen. nov.
Generic diagnosis.
Body small, brachypterous. Fastigium verticis conical, with a median sulcus, apex obtuse. Eyes subglobular. Apical segment of maxillary palpus slightly as long as subapical one, apex inflated. Posterior margin of pronotum protruding backwards, metazona not raised, disc with a pair of dark brown stripe on lateral margin, between which light brown; lateral lobe longer than high, without humeral sinus. Ventral margin of all femora without spines, apices of genicular lobes obtuse; procoxae with 1 spine; pro- and mesotibiae with spines on ventral margin, tibial tympana open on both sides, ovoid; posttibiae with a pair of dorsal apical spurs and a pair of ventral apical spurs. Male tegmina not reaching, or slightly surpassing posterior margin of pronotum, the teeth of stridulatory file robust and sparse; female tegmina overlapping; hind wings absent. Posterior margin of male tenth abdominal tergite normal or slightly projecting, genitalia membranous; basal area of cerci expanded, apical half cylindrical; subapex of subgenital plate with styli on ventral margin. Female pronotum shorter, disc without brown stripes; subgenital plate broader than long; dorsal and ventral margins of ovipositor smooth, apices of dorsal valvulae sharply pointed, apices of ventral ones with a small distinct terminal hook.
Discussion.
The new genus is very similar to
Phlugiolopsis
Zeuner,
1940
in the general appearance, but it differs from the latter in: body yellowish green; dorsum of head without 4 obviously brown or black brown stripes; the teeth of stridulatory file larger but more widely separated from one another; posttibiae with a pair of ventral apical spurs.
Type
species:
Paraphlugiolopsis jiangi
sp. nov.
,
here designated.