Alloteratura (Meconemopsis) kevani Jin, 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 : 8-9

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F0641A6C-D049-4CD1-BEA5-5E09F3B01923

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3815286

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D0E2915-FFBB-C362-FF70-39B7B2C7D7C1

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Plazi

scientific name

Alloteratura (Meconemopsis) kevani Jin
status

sp. nov.

3) Alloteratura (Meconemopsis) kevani Jin View in CoL sp. n.

Holotype ♀ (both antennae, left fore and middle legs, right hind leg lost): BRITISH N. BORNEO/ Tawau, Quoin Hill / 15–20.VII.1962; H. Holtmann / Light Trap / BISHOP

Diagnosis. General appearance very similar to Alloteratura (M.) tuberculata Jin sp. n. Apex of fastigium darkened with a distinct reversed Y-shaped mark extended to middle of vertex ( Fig. 3b View FIGURE 3 ). Humeral sinus distinct, cross point of lateral plate to pronotum disc in right angle ( Fig. 3c View FIGURE 3 ). Thoracic foramen large size. Tegmina and wings long, beyond apex of hind femora. Fore coxal spur moderate long. Hind tibia with 3 pairs of apical spurs, apex of hind femur with spinule lobe.

Female subgenital plate relatively short, with almost even posterior margin ( Fig. 3d View FIGURE 3 ). Ovipositor relatively slender and long with pointed apex, ventral valve shorter than dorsal one ( Fig. 3a View FIGURE 3 ).

Male unknown.

Measurements (mm). Body: ♀ 8.9; Pronotum: ♀ 3.2; Tegmina: ♀ 13.2; Hind femora: ♀ 9.1; Ovipositor: 6.3.

Comparison: These 2 characters, that is, a reversed Y-shaped darkened mark from apex of fastigium extended to middle of vertex, and the 8 th tergite without a posteroventral lobules projected backwards on each side, make this female very similar to Alloteratura (Meconemopsis) sarawaki Gorochov, 2016 (Fig. 34–36, 51, 63, 64) from Borneo, but humeral sinus in right angle, subgenital plate with more or less even posterior margin, without posteromedian notch, ovipositor not equal in length, ventral valve distinctly shorter than dorsal one.

Etymology. Species is named in honor of Canadian Orthopterist, Dr. Douglas Keath McE Kevan, Ph.D. thesis supervisor of the first author.

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