Review of the cave cricket genus Tamdaotettix Gorochov with a new species and some new descriptions (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae, Aemodogryllinae)
Author
Qin, Yanyan
Author
Liu, Xianwei
Author
Li, Kai
text
Zootaxa
2016
4154
3
339
345
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4154.3.9
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1175-5326
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2.
Tamdaotettix
(
Laotettix
)
curvatus
(
Gorochov, 2015
)
(
Figs. 3–4
)
Tamdaotettix
(
Laotettix
)
curvatus
Gorochov, 2015
.
Zoosystematica Rossica
, 24(1): 54, figs. 18–24.
Description.
Male. Body small sized, shining. Head with fastigium of vertex divided into two conical tubercles, completely fused. Legs long and slender; fore femora about 1.2 times as long as the pronotum, beneath unarmed, external genicular lobe with a long movable spur; fore tibiae beneath with 2 external and 2 internal spurs, between the paired apical spurs with a short spur. Mid femora with a long movable spur on the external and internal genicular lobe; mid tibiae beneath with 2 external and 1 internal spur(s), between the paired apical spurs with a short spur. Hind femora beneath with 6 internal spines and without outer spines; hind tibiae above with 59–62 outer spines and 57–58 inter spines, inner subapical spur of hind tibiae longer than hind metatarsus. Hind metatarsus with 5 dorsal spines. Process of 7th abdominal tergite with concave dorsal edge (
Fig. 3
). Process of 6th abdominal tergite without projection (
Fig. 3
). Paraproct with a globularly rounded apex (
Fig. 4
).
Female. Unkonwn.
Coloration.
Body light brown. Pronotum with a light median band. Hind legs yellowish brown and femora with brown stripes.
Measurements.
(length in mm) Body Ƌ11.5; pronotum Ƌ6.5; fore femora Ƌ8.0; hind femora Ƌ18.0; hind tibiae
♂
19.0.
Material examined.
1♂
,
Mengla
,
Yunnan
,
China
, 1995.
VII.23–27
, collected by
Liu Xian-Wei
et al.
.
Distribution
.
China
(
Yunnan
)
;
Laos
(
Xieng Khouang
)
.
Discussion.
This species is very similar to
Tamdaotettix
(
Laotettix
)
minutus
Gorochov, 2015
, but differs from the latter in: process of paraproct with a globularly round apex, process of 7th abdominal tergite with concave dorsal edge.