Ornebius polycomus He, 2017

He, Zhuqing, Liu, Hui Lu Yuqing & Li, Kai, 2017, A new species of Ornebius Guérin-Méneville, 1844 from East China (Orthoptera: Mogoplistidae: Mogoplistinae), Zootaxa 4303 (3), pp. 445-450 : 447-448

Ornebius polycomus He sp. nov.

( Figs. 1, 2 , 7–12 )

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Holotype. male, CHINA, Zhejiang, Lishui, Qingyuan, alt. 400–500m, 9.IX.2016, coll. Zhuqing He ( East China Normal University , Shanghai). Paratypes: 1 female, same data as holotype ( ECNU).

Description. Male. Typical characters of this genus ( Fig. 1, 2 , 7 ). Body covered with scales except tegmen (scales feather like as in Fig. 12 ). Head small, frontal rostrum wider than scapus. Maxillary palps with apical three segments elongate and fifth segment little widened ( Fig. 9 ). Pronotum two times long as head. Tegmen hardly covered by pronotum. Obvious bristles on all legs. Anterior tibia with small internal tympanum. Posterior tibiae with spines from base to end. Several long hairs gathered as a brush, and four brushes on each last four tergites laterally ( Fig. 11 ). Supra-anal plate typical of other members of the genus. Male genitalia not produced dorsally. Coloration. Body brown. The inferior margin of lateral lobes of pronotum white. Lower part of head white. Tegmina yellow, outer margin with reddish brown. All legs with white bristles. Cercus alternating with black and white.

Female. Apterous. Pronotum little longer than head. Hairs standing together as in a brush, forming four lines on the dorsal surface of abdomen ( Fig. 8 ). Ovipositor with ventral margin of apical valves smooth ( Fig. 10 ).

Measurements. (in mm) Body length: male 9, female 12; pronotum: male 3, female 2.7; tegmen: male 4.2; hind femur: male 5, female 5.2; ovipositor 5.

Etymology. Species name polycomus means several brush-like hair clusters on abdomen.

Discussion. There are distinct differences with known species in appearance ( Figs. 1–6 ).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 6. Ornebius spp. living. 1. polycomus sp. nov., male 2. polycomus sp. nov. female 3. bimaculatus 4. fuscicerci 5. kanetataki 6. formosanus

FIGURES 7 – 12. O. polycomus sp. nov., 7. dry specimens of male, general view; 8. dry specimens of female, general view; 9. maxillary palpus of male, lateral view; 10. ovipositor of femle, lateral view; 11. abdomen of female, dorsal view; 12. scales by SEM. Red arrows in Fig. 11 arrows indicate the “ brush of hairs ”.