Epitettix guangxiensis ( Zheng & Jiang, 1994 ) Deng, 2020

Deng, Wei-An, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the subfamily Cladonotinae (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) from China with description of three new species, Zootaxa 4789 (2), pp. 403-440 : 416

Epitettix guangxiensis ( Zheng & Jiang, 1994) , comb. nov.

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Pseudepitettix guangxiensis Zheng & Jiang, 1994:36 [description] (holotype— ♂, China: Guangxi prov., Shangsi County, Hon- gqi, in IZSNU, examined); Jiang & Zheng, 1998: 274; Liang & Zheng, 1998: 35; Liang & Jiang, 2004: 117; Zheng, 2005: 29; Deng et al., 2007: 29, 402.

Type material examined. Holotype, ♂, China: Guangxi prov., Shangsi County, Hongqi , 29 XI. 2001, IZSNU . Other material examined. 11♂ 10♀, China: Guangxi prov., Shangsi County, Wangle , 23 VII. 2013, EMHU ; 7♂ 15♀, China: Guangxi prov., Fangchen County, Fulong , 20 VII. 2012, EMHU .

Notes. The species has a fastigium of vertex distinctly surpassing anterior margin of eyes as an evenly broad, rounded process; humeral angles of pronotum are absent, and it belongs to Epitettix Hancock, 1907 , not to Pseudepitettix Zheng 1995 . Epitettix guangxiensis is easy to identify: the body is smooth; vertex is much wider than one of the eyes; the pronotum is short, reaching two-thirds of hind femora, and the apex of the hind pronotal process is concave.

Distribution. China (Guangxi).

Figures

FIGURE 5A–L. Austrohancockia yuexiensis Zha, Deng & Zheng, 2014; Deltonotus hainanensis Zheng & Liang, 1985; Epitettix guangxiensis (Zheng & Jiang, 1994), comb. nov.; Epitettix yunnanensis (Zheng, 1995), comb. nov.; Gibbotettix circinihumerus Zheng, 2003; Gibbotettix cristata (Liang, 1995).A—Austrohancockia yuexiensis, dorsal view of body; B—Austrohancockia yuexiensis, lateral view of body; C—Deltonotus hainanensis, lateral view of body; D—Deltonotus hainanensis, dorsal view of body; E—Epitettix guangxiensis, dorsal view of body; F—Epitettix guangxiensis, lateral view of head and pronotum; G—Epitettix yunnanensis, dorsal view of body; H—Epitettix yunnanensis, lateral view of head and pronotum; I—Gibbotettix circinihumerus, dorsal view of body; J—Gibbotettix circinihumerus, lateral view of body; K—Gibbotettix cristata, dorsal view of head and pronotum; L—Gibbotettix cristata, lateral view of head and pronotum. (A–B photo: Lingsheng Zha, C–D photo: Weian Deng, E–F after Zheng & Jiang; G–J after Zheng, K–L after Liang).