Mecopoda minor, Liu, 2020

Liu, Chun-Xiang, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Wang, Xue-Song, Yang, Zhen, Wu, Chao, Liu, Fei & Zhang, Tao, 2020, Taxonomy of a katydid genus Mecopoda Serville (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Mecopodinae) from East Asia, Zootaxa 4758 (2), pp. 296-310 : 305

Species group minor Liu

Diagnosis (species group “c”). The songs are constituted by numerous discontinuous chirps at the beginning followed by continuous syllables ( Figs 3 a–k).

Notes. According to the song characteristics ( Liu et al., 2019), M. hainanensis He, 2019 , should be put into the species group.

Included species and subspecies. M. minor sp. n. ( East Asia), M. m. yunnana sub sp. n. ( China), M. hainanensis He, 2019 ( China) .

Figures

FIGURE 3. Calling song of two subspecies of the species M. minor sp. nov.. Oscillogram of a whole song (a), one (b) or two (d) chirp groups in the beginning, or the continuous repeated syllable groups (e, h, i) in the rear trill segment. Sonogramm of the beginning chirp segment (c), of the rear trill segment (f, j), and power spectrum (g, k) of the calling song. a–g: M. minor minor subsp. nov.; h–k: M. m. yunnana subsp. nov..