Taxonomy of a katydid genus Mecopoda Serville (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Mecopodinae) from East Asia
Author
Liu, Chun-Xiang
Author
Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
Author
Wang, Xue-Song
Author
Yang, Zhen
Author
Wu, Chao
Author
Liu, Fei
Author
Zhang, Tao
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-03-30
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2
296
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4758.2.5
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Mecopoda fallax
He, 2019
(
Figs 1
f–j; 5b; 6b)
Mecopoda fallax
He, 2019
. In Liu
et al
., Zootaxa 4585(3):571 (
Holotype
, male, origin. Descript.; type locality:
China
,
China
South-central,
Yunnan
, Mangshi; type depository: ECNU)
Examined material.
China
:
Guangxi Province
:
8 males
,
Nanning City
,
Daming Mountain
,
2013.IX.28
;
1 male
,
1 female
,
Longzhou County
, Nonggang, 2012.VII.;
12 males
,
3 females
,
China
:
Hainan Province
:
Shuiman Township
,
Wuzhishan Mountain
,
2014.X.16
;
9 males
,
3 females
,
Yunnan Province
: Wenshan Prefecture, Malipo,
2014.XI.14.
Diagnosis.
The species is distinguished from
M. niponensis
by the comparatively long wide tegmen (see measurements in Tables 5–6).
Bioacoustics.
The species differs from
M. niponensis
by the much shorter period of a single song unit, and that three phases are made up of repeated simple syllables (see song parameters in Table 2). The species is widely distributed in South and southwestern
China
(only including
Guangxi
,
Guangdong
,
Hainan
and
Yunnan
).