Phlugiolopsis puerensis, Pan & Ran & Bian, 2024

Pan, Yangyang, Ran, Yiqi & Bian, Xun, 2024, Five new species of the genus Phlugiolopsis (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from Yunnan, China, Zootaxa 5474 (3), pp. 243-258 : 250-251

Phlugiolopsis puerensis sp. nov.

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Description. Male. Body small. Fastigium verticis conical with a shallowly median furrow on dorsal surface, apex obtusely rounded ( Fig. 6A ). Eyes nearly semiglobular, projecting outwards. Apical segments of maxillary palpi about as long as subapical ones, apices faintly inflated ( Fig. 6B ).

Anterior margin of pronotum straight, posterior margin narrowly rounded, protruding backward; lateral lobes longer than deep, narrowing backward, humeral sinus absent ( Fig. 6B ). Tegmina overlapped, slightly surpassing the posterior margin of pronotum and reaching the middle area of the third abdominal tergite ( Fig. 6B ).

Fore coxae with 1 spine. All femora unarmed; apices of genicular lobes of hind femora obtusely rounded. Ventral surface of fore tibiae with 4 pairs of spines, apices with 1 pair of spurs; fore tibial tympana oval, opened on both sides. Middle tibiae with 2 internal spines, 4 external spines and 1 pair of apical spurs on ventral surface. Hind tibiae with 25–27 pairs of spines on dorsal surface, ventral surface with 2 internal spines and 5 external spines, apices with 1 pair of dorsal spurs and 2 pairs of ventral spurs.

Posterior margin of tenth abdominal tergite faintly concave in the middle ( Fig. 6D ). Cerci stout, interno-dorsal margin of basal half semicircularly expanded ( Fig. 6D ), ventral surface with 1 large, depressed process which upcurved and apices obtuse ( Fig. 6E ); apical half sclerotized and curved forwards ( Fig. 6E ), apical margin with 1 small spine on each side ( Fig. 6H ). Subgenital plate longer than wide, basal margin with 1 triangularly membranous area in the middle, posterior margin undulating with a small angular in the middle ( Fig. 6H ). Styli slender, inserted at the subapical area of subgenital plate on ventral surface ( Fig. 6I ).

Female. Unknown.

Coloration. Body dark brown. Eyes dark brown. Antennal socket and internal margins of basal two segments of antennae black, flagellum with brown rings at apical area of each segment. Dorsal surface of head with four longitudinal black stripes, the external stripes fine and extending to the internal margins of antennal sockets, the inner stripes wide and fused at the apices of fastigium verticis. Disc of pronotum with a longitudinal dark brown stripe on both sides, which reaches the middle of metazona. Apices of femora and tarsi brown. Abdominal tergites dark brown on both sides, sternites dark brown.

Material examined. Holotype: male, Taiyanghe, Puer , Yunnan, August 25, 2023, coll. by Siyu Pang and Ting Luo . Paratypes: 3 males, the other information as holotype.

Measurements (mm). Body: ♂ 7.98–8.53; pronotum: ♂ 5.28–5.57; tegmen: ♂ 3.16–3.79; hind femur: ♂ 9.53– 9.90.

Distribution. Yunnan (Puer).

Discussion. The new species is similar to Phlugiolopsis (Uncinata) latusiprocera Bian & Shi, 2018 in basal half of male cerci with a semicircular lobe on dorso-internal margins, ventral margins with 1 transverse and upcurved process, but differs from later by apical area sclerotized and curved forwards, apical margin with 1 pair of spinules.

Etymology. The new species is named after the type locality.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Phlugiolopsis puerensis sp. nov. Male: A–B. head and pronotum: A. dorsal view, B. lateral view; C–I. apex of abdomen: C. lateral view, D. dorsal view, E. apical view, F. apical and ventral view, G. apico-ventral and slightly lateral view, H–I. ventral view.