Mongolodectes Bey-Bienko, 1951

Liu, Chun-Xiang, Xu, Wen-Jing & Zhang, Chun-Tian, 2015, A new species of Mongolodectes (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from Alashan Plateau in China, Zootaxa 4052 (2), pp. 246-250 : 246-248

Mongolodectes Bey-Bienko, 1951

Type species: Paradrymadusa kiritshenkoi Miram , by original designation. Mongolodectes Bey-Bienko, 1951 . Trudy Russk. Entomol. Obshch., 43:144; Heller & Korsunovskaya, 2009. Jour. Orth. Res., 18(1):10; Liu, 2015. Zootaxa, 3925 (2): 294.

Diagnosis. Pronotum shorter than fore femur; disk without sharp lateral keels; lateral lobes nearly smooth, without wrinkles. Fore and middle tibiae dorsally with a subapical spine only on one side, exterior in fore tibiae and interior in middle ones. Median femur armed on posterior margin of ventral surface. Genicular lobes of hind femur unarmed on anterior margin. Female brachypterous or mesopterous. Ovipositor decurved. (from Bey-Bienko, 1951; Liu, 2015)

Included species. Mongolodectes kiritshenkoi ( Miram, 1929) ; Mongolodectes alashanicus Bey-Bienko, 1951 ; Mongolodectes kaszabi Bazyluk, 1972 ; Mongolodectes huangxinleii sp. nov.

TABLE 1. Measurements of species in the genus Drymadusini for comparison (length in millimeters).

Length Length Length Length Length Length Length Length Anatlanticus Bei-Bienko,1951

uvarovi (Miram,1940)

Holotype, m, Ussuri 30 7.6 16 22 23.1 Miram (1940) males 23–30 6.8–7.2 14–16 21–22 Bei-Bienko(1951) Holotype, m, China: Liaoning, Qingyuan 22 5.6 12.5 7 7.2 21 21.2 Liu (2015) Paratype, f, China: Liaoning, Kuandian 30 8 9 9.7 10 27.5 26 27.5 Liu (2015) longispeculi Liu,2015

Holotype, m, China: Jinlin, Manjiang 22 7.5 15.2 8.5 8.6 Liu (2015) Mongolodectes Bei-Bienko,1951

kiritshenkoi ( Miram,1929)

holotype, m, Central Mongonia 27 7 12 18.2 17.5 Miram (1929) paratype, f, Mongonia 27 7 8.2 20.8 20.8 19 Miram (1929)

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Length Length Length Length Length Length Length Length huangi sp. nov.

males, China: China: Inner Mongolia: Alashan 31.1 8.43–8.83 12.77–14.19 7.5 9 20.74–21.35 present study Zuoqi, Helanshan National Natural Reserve,

Halawu Reserve Spot

females, China: Inner Mongolia: Alashan Zuoqi, 35.1 8.96 10.37 9.5 10 23.01 21.98 present study Helanshan National Natural Reserve, Halawu

Reserve Spot