Phaneroptera falcata ( Poda, 1761 )

Liu, Chun-Xiang, 2011, Phaneroptera Serville and Anormalous gen. nov. (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) from China, with description of two new species, Zootaxa 2979, pp. 60-68 : 64-65

Phaneroptera falcata ( Poda, 1761) (Plate 2 g –m)

Gryllus falcata Poda, Mus Graec. 1761:52 (type lost; Type locality: Eurasia: Austria: Gratz); Phaneroptera falcata: Brunner, 1878 , Monogr. Phaneropt.: 211 (syn.)

Decticus phyllopteroides Fischer von Waldheim, 1846, Nouv. mem. Soc. Imp. natur. Moscou 8:173; Storozhenko, 2004, Longhorned orthopterans ( Orthoptera : Ensifera) of the Asiatic part of Russia: 56 [in Russian] (syn.)

Phaneroptera sinensis Uvarov, 1933 , Ark. Zool. A 26(1): 7; Ragge, 1956, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 127(2): 254 (syn.)

Redescription: Male stridulatory file sinuate, with about 40 distinct widely spaced stridulatory teeth, which are becoming larger mediad (Plate 2b).

PLATE 3, Phaneroptera nigroantennata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878. a, head, latral view; b, pronotum, lateral view; c, male stridulatory file on underside of left tegmen, ventral view; d, male left cerci, dorsal view; e, male left cerci, apico-dorsal view; f, male epiproct, dorsal view.

Material examined: China: Hebei Prov.: 13 males, 12 females, Xiaowutaishan [Mt.], 1200–1600 m, 1964. VIII.5–IX.4, Coll. Han Yinheng, Wang Chunguang & Li Bingqian ( IZAS); 1 male, Zhuolu County, Xiaowutai [Mt.], 2300m, 1983. VIII.5 (coll. unknown) Coll.; Heilongjiang Prov.: 5 males, Dailing, 300m, 1963. VIII.6–VIII.22, Coll. Bai Juiwei ( IZAS); 5 males, 3 females, Ning’an, Jingpohu, 1970. IX.1–IX.2, (coll. unknown) ( IZAS); 3 males, Mishan (Xinkai), 1970. VIII.11–VIII.19 (coll. unknown) ( IZAS); Jiangxi Prov.: Kuling, 3males, 1 female, 1934. IX.22, Coll. O. Piel ( IZAS); Jiangsu Prov.: 1 males, 2 females, Shanghai, 1930. VI.16, Coll. O. Piel ( IZAS); Shanxi Prov.: 7 males, 3 females, Yongji County, Wulaofeng, 700–1000m, 1991. IX.13–IX.19, Coll. Liu Jupeng ( IZAS); Sichuan Prov.: 3 males, 2 females, Emeishan [Mt.], Baoguoshi, 550–750m, 1957. IX.6– IX.24, Coll. Wangzhongyuan ( IZAS); Xinjiang Prov.: 5 males, 7 females, Wulumuqi, 580m, 1959. IX.5–IX.9, Coll. Li Changqin & Tian Afu ( IZAS); 2 males, 1 female, Emin, Kelumusu, 550m, 1960. IX.6, Coll. Wang Shuyong; 5 males, 4 females, Xinyuan, 950–1200m, 1957. VIII.23, Coll. Hong Chunpei & Wang Guang ( IZAS); 2 males, 2 females, Tachen, 470m, 1960. IX.8–IX.9, Coll. Wang Shuyong ( IZAS); Shanghai, 1933. VII.6, (coll. unknown) ( IZAS); Zhejiang Prov.: 1 male, Chushan, 1931. VIII.25, Coll. O. Piel ( IZAS).

Distribution: This species is distributed from central and southern Europe across central Asia to China (including Taiwan Island) and Japan ( Ragge 1956; Huang 2004).