Pachyscia longicauda ( Bi, 1990 ) Bi, 1990

Ho, George Wai-Chun, 2012, Notes on the genera Sinophasma Günther, 1940 and Pachyscia Redtenbacher, 1908 (Phasmatodea: Diapheromeridae: Necrosciinae), with the description of four new species from China, Zootaxa 3495, pp. 57-72 : 70-71

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.214059
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6174928
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scientific name	Pachyscia longicauda ( Bi, 1990 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Pachyscia longicauda ( Bi, 1990) comb. nov.

Sinophasma longicauda, Bi, 1990: 151 , figs. 1–3. Chen & He, 1992: 44, fig. 126. [Female description and illustration] Bi, Chen & He, 1992: 67.

Chen, 1993: 87, figs. 1–3.

Wang, Chen & He, 1995: 66. [First record from Guangxi] Hua, 2000: 31.

Otte & Brock, 2005: 315.

Xu, 2006: 61, fig. 4. [Egg illustration] Hennemann, Conle & Zhang, 2008: 37. Asceles longicauda, Chen & He, 1996: 41 . Chen & Wang, 1998: 16.

Chen, He & Xu, 2006: 94.

Chen & He, 2008: 118, figs. 83 a–e.

Type-material. Holotype 3, Suoxiyu, Cili, Hunan Province, China, 31.VIII.1988, Liu Xianwei (SEM); Paratype 3, Zhangjiajie, Dayong, Hunan Province, China, 28.IX.1986, Liu Xianwei (SEM), examined.

Other material examined. 3, 520– 560 m., Fanjingshan, Guizhou Province, China, 14.VII.1988, Yuan Decheng ( IZCAS); 3, 500– 950 m., Fanjingshan, Guizhou Province, China, 3.VIII.2001, Zhao Fang ( CAU); Ƥ, Zhangjiajie, Dayong, Hunan Province, China, 16.VII.2005, Li & Zhao (SNU); 23, 882– 950 m., 16 km., Jinxiu, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China, 29.VII.2011, Peng Zhong (SNU); 3, Gaozhai, Xing’an, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China, 24.VII.2012, Ho, G.W.C. (GH).

Diagnosis. This species is readily distinguished from all other Pachyscia species by tuberculate mesonotum in male and posteriorly narrowing anal segment in female.

Notes. Bi (1990) originally placed this species in Sinophasma Günther, 1940 . Chen and He (1996: 41) later transferred this species to Asceles Redtenbacher, 1908 based on Asceles quadriguttatus Chen & He, 1996 [= Pachyscia quadriguttata ]. Actually, the elongate and posteriorly notched anal segment in male and subapically lobed mesofemora in female shows the characters of the genus Pachyscia and therefore here transferred. First description and illustration of female was provided by Chen and He (1992: 44).

Distribution. Hunan (Suoxiyu and Zhangjiajie), Guizhou (Fanjingshan) and Guangxi (Longsheng, Jinxiu and Xing’an), China.