Contribution to the cockroach genus Ctenoneura Hanitsch, 1925 (Blattodea: Corydioidea: Corydiidae) with descriptions of seven new species from China
Author
Qiu, Lu
Author
Che, Yan-Li
Author
Wang, Zong-Qing
text
Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
36430
10.11646/zootaxa.4237.2.3
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Ctenoneura helicata
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 11
,
13
A, 16 H, 23)
Type
material.
Holotype
:
CHINA
:
Yunnan
:
male (
BJFU
),
Menglong Town
,
Jinghong City
,
14.V.1978
, no collector recorded
.
Paratype
:
CHINA
:
Yunnan
:
1 male
(
BJFU
), same data as holotype
.
Diagnosis.
This species can be distinguished from other Chinese
simulans
-group species by the peculiar deep and narrow emargination on the left side of the subgenital plate (
Fig. 16
H).
Description.
Body length 6.5–7.0 mm; overall length including tegmen 11.0–
11.5 mm
; pronotum length
×
width 1.9–2.3
×
2.6–3.0 mm,
holotype
is distinctly bigger than the
paratype
.
Coloration.
Body brownish yellow. Head dark brown, antennae yellowish brown. Pronotal disk dark brown, lateral areas yellow, subtransparent. Tegmina brownish yellow, wings transparent, with RP brownish yellow; venations of both tegmina and wings dark brown. Legs, abdomen, cerci light brown (
Figs. 11 A–B
).
Head:
slightly exposed (
Fig. 23
A), vertex round, eyes wide apart, interocular space greater than the distance between antennal sockets, ocelli small, face with a Y-shaped convex, antennae with much small yellow pubescence.
Pronotum:
subcircular (
Fig. 23
A).
Tegmina and wings:
fully developed extending well beyond end of the abdomen; tegmen with branches of R oblique, Sc slightly thickened, M with 5–6 branches, between R and M presents an intercalary vein, CuA minute, short, not bifurcate (
Fig. 23
B); wing with intercalary vein present, interrupted, M bifurcate, one branch rebifurcate, CuA with 5–6 branches, CuP long and thin (
Fig. 23
C).
Legs:
front femur
type
C1, with many spinules on the surface, one process appearing on the base of the hind margin (
Fig.
23 D). Pulvilli absent, arolia small, tarsal claws symmetrical, simple.
Abdomen:
supra-anal plate in dorsal view transverse, simple, median with a transparent area; cerci long, pubescent, three segments of the base rounded (
Fig. 11 C–D
,
23
E). Subgenital plate asymmetrical, when observing it in the specimen, left with an deep emargination, with one small stylus on the left side (
Fig. 16
H); when observing it separately, right with an small eds (
Fig. 11 F
,
23
F–G) and the stylus is clearly observed situate on a process (
Figs. 11 E–F
,
23
F–G); in dorsal view, the eds forming a groove towards right (
Fig. 23
G); sgs present, slender and curved, basal portion expanded, flat and round, near the basal portion bent acutely, the rest slender, heliciform and the apex portion nested in the eds (
Fig. 13
A, 23 H).
Genitalia: left phallomere:
right margin straight, with a small process, rectangular with the right margin; lvp with irregular extending process towards left, ldp with narrow but well-sclerotized cvp.
Right phallomere:
R1M with one elongated process near the apex and one small bent process near the base; R2 with rop very inflated and stout, slp quite strong and short, elp short, with membrane, apex round; R3 large, anterior apex round.
Transverse sclerite (tvs):
right apex sharpened, near the right bent obtusely, the bent point with one blunt process; left portion with two neighboring processes, one bigger than the other (
Fig.
23
I).
Female.
Unknown.
Distribution.
China
: South
Yunnan
(
Fig. 3
).
Etymology.
The specific epithet “
helicata
” expresses the character that the distal portion of the sgs is quite spiral.