Borneopsis cryptosticta (Hebard, 1922) Jin & Liu & Wang, 2020

Jin, Xingbao, Liu, Xianwei & Wang, Hanqiang, 2020, New taxa of the tribe Meconematini from South-Pacific and Indo-Malayan Regions (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Meconematinae), Zootaxa 4772 (1), pp. 1-53 : 40-42

59) Borneopsis cryptosticta ( Hebard, 1922, Xizicus ) comb. n. new male

1♂ (hind legs lost): SINGAPORE: Nee Sung / Forest Reserve / 20m, XII-7-1958; T . C. Maa / Collector/ BISHOP

Description of male. General appearance typical of the genus. Body moderate size. Fastigium of vertex sharp conical. Pronotum with deep lateral plate, posterior margin sinuate, humeral sinus indistinct. Tegmina and wings long, beyond apex of hind femora. Genicular lobe of hind femur with short spinules apex. Hind tibia with 3 pairs of apical spurs.

Male 10 th tergite without posteriomedian notch, a pair of short process laterally compressed parallel to each oth- er on posteriomedian margin ( Fig. 26a ). Cerci basal half swollen, apical half flatten with narrowing apex, strongly bent inward and upward ( Fig. 26a, b ). Subgenital plate with nearly even posterior margin, styli moderate long ( Fig. 26c ).

Measurements (mm). Body: ♂ 11.5; Pronotum: ♂ 4.0; Tegmina: ♂ 17.6; Hind femora: lost.

Comments and comparison. This male collected from Singapore was identified as Xiphidiopsis cryptosticta Hebard, 1922 by second author years ago before Borneopsis Gorochov, 2016 established, mainly based on its genicular lobe of hind femur with spinules apex but with suspicions, as Sänger & Helfert (1996) described a male from Thailand as Xiphidiopsis cryptosticta Hebard, 1922 already. By carefully reading their description (1996: 610): “Femora unarmed”, that seems to be disagreed with what Hebard’s original description (1922: 256) of female from Singapore: “Genicular lobes of cephalic and median femora bluntly rounded, of caudal femora unispinose”. Probably Hebard compaired with some taxa of Conocephalinae with doubled spinular genicular lobes, as Xiphidiopsis once shifted from Conocephalinae to Listroscelinae . Surely, this designation may still need to be confirmed when new material with both sexes from Singapore available.

Figures

FIGURE 26. Borneopsis cryptosticta (Hebard, 1922) comb. n. new male male abdominal terminal: a. dorsal view, b. lateral view; c. male subgenital plate; d. female subgenital plate.