Mecopoda niponensis continentalis Gorochov, 2020

Recording; male CH7674, CHINA: Yunnan, Honghe, Dai Yao Jinping Miao, Maandi (22°52’N, 103°13’E), 1900 m, 20 viii 2013, leg. Liu Chun-Xiang (song, stridulatory organs, chromosomes) .

Other material (stridulatory files studied): 13 males, CHINA, Fukien (= Fujian), Kuatun (2300m) 27.40ºN, 117.40ºE, 11–15 ix 1938, leg. J. Klapperich; 1 male, CHINA, Fukien (= Fujian), Kwangtseh, 17 viii 1937, leg, J.Klapperich (ORT2002 _1833-9, 1845, 1849–50, 1984; ZFMK) .

For comparison with M. n. vietnamica subsp. nov., we present an oscillogram of the song of the subspecies continentalis from China (Fig. 7). For the stridulatory file, see M. n. vietnamica subsp. nov. below.

Chromosomes: 2n = 27, FN = 54; pairs 1, 2 and 5–13 metacentric, 3 and 4 subacrocentric, X chromosome metacentric (Fig. 15).