New synonymies in Chinese Oxyinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
Author
Huang, Jianhua
Author
Zheng, Zhemin
Author
Huang, Yuan
Author
Zhou, Shanyi
text
Zootaxa
2009
1976
39
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.185158
c8c824e6-0061-4668-86f1-18ab48bd8382
1175-5326
185158
Genus
Yinia
Liu & Li, 1995
Yinia
Liu & Li, 1995
: 104
.
Caryandoides
Zheng & Xie, 2007
: 92
.
New synonym
Type
species:
Yinia hunanica
Liu & Li, 1995
.
Generic diagnosis.
Body medium-sized. Head shorter than pronotum. Vertex short, with widely rounded anterior margin and slightly depressed dorsum, lateral foveolae and median longitudinal carina absent. Antennae filiform, longer than combined length of head and pronotum. Frons oblique in profile view; frontal ridge distinct, extending almost to clypeus, longitudinally sulcate throughout, with lateral carinae nearly parallel. Eyes large, subellipsoid. Pronotum subcylindrical, median carina very weak, lateral carinae absent, metazona much shorter than prozona. Prosternal process conical with pointed or rounded apex. Mesosternal interspace much longer than wide. Tegmina reduced, not touching or slightly touching each other along median dorsal keel. Tympanal organs developed and oval.
Hind
femora slender, upper carina smooth, upper genicular lobes rounded, lower genicular lobes spined.
Hind
tibiae not expanded to form lamellate margins at apical half but with only carinate margins, external apical spine present. Furcula absent in terminal abdominal tergite. Subgenital plate in male with nearly truncate apex, in female having hind margin with subapical teeth. Epiphallus with divided symmetrical bridge, two pairs of lophi and unique dorsal lobe, anterior projection not distinctly protruding beyond the anterior margin of bridge, ancorae absent. Phallic complex with apical valves of penis and valves of cingulum broadly lamellated.
Remark.
The genus is obviously a member of the subfamily Oxyinae that has been reviewed by
Hollis (1975)
, and most similar to
Oxya
Audinet-Serville. However
, it can be easily distinguished from
Oxya
by: hind tibiae not expanded to form lamellate margins at apical half; tegmina much reduced, only reaching posterior margin of the second abdominal tergite (cf.
O. minuta
Carl
, the only species of
Oxya
with shortened wings, tegmina hardly reaching middle of abdomen but touching each other along median dorsal keel (
Hollis, 1971
,
1975
)); epiphallus with anterior projection not distinctly protruding beyond the anterior margin of bridge, phallic complex with apical valves of penis and valves of cingulum broadly lamellated. The genus is also very similar to
Caryanda
Stål
, but differs from the latter in: posterior margin of pronotum without emargination in the middle, the terminal abdominal tergite of male without furcula; epiphallus with unique dorsal lobes and without ancorae.
The genus
Caryandoides
was established to contain the species
Caryandoides maguas
. As a result of our study,
Caryandoides maguas
is recognized as a new junior synonym of
Yinia hunanica
, the
type
species of the genus
Yinia
. Thus we regard the genus
Caryandoides
as a new junior synonym of the genus
Yinia
.