Mecopoda niponensis niponensis (Haan, 1843)

Lectotype male, here designated; labels (1) cotypus, (2) Museum Leiden, L. (Mecopoda) niponensis d. H., Det: de Haan (hand-written), (3) Museum Leiden, Mecopoda elongata L., det. C. de Jong, 1937. Stridulatory organs studied.

In the description of the species, de Haan (1843) obviously used a male and a female, probably both labeled as cotypes. We formally designate the male as lectotype although the female cotype seems to be lost. The stridulatory file has 116 teeth with the largest inter-tooth intervals between middle and anal third (Fig. 11–12). M. marmorata Liu, 2019 (Fig. 12) is similar to M. niponensis in file structure and basic pattern of the song (Liu et al. 2020), but not in genetics (Liu et al. 2019; Liu Cx in prep.).

Measurements (in mm): length of pronotum 7.1, tegmen length 39.1, tegmen width 15.4 (widest in the middle).