Homogryllacris platycis Liu & Bian, 2021

Duan, Yanhao, Zhang, Tao & Shi, Fuming, 2024, Notes on the genus Homogryllacris Liu, 2007 (Orthoptera: Gryllacrididae) with description of one new species from China, Zootaxa 5418 (1), pp. 72-82 : 76

3. Homogryllacris platycis Liu & Bian, 2021

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Homogryllacris platycis Liu & Bian, 2021 . In: Liu, Yang & Bian, Zootaxa, 5067 (2): 287.

Holotype: male; type locality: Gulinqing, Maguan , Yunnan.

Material examined. 2♂ 5♀, Yaoshan, Hekou, Yunnan, 11 September, 2020, coll. Qidi Zhu ; 1♂ 1♀, Yaoshan, Hekou, Yunnan, 25 August, 2022, coll. Qi Guo and Hao Xu ; 2♂ 1♀, Gulinqing, Maguan, Yunnan, 4 August, 2021, coll. Qi Guo and Yanhao Duan.

Distribution. China (Yunnan).

Discussion. This species was originally described by Liu et al. (2021) based on a male specimen (holotype: male, type locality: Gulinqing, Maguan, Yunnan) and two female specimens from the type locality. We examined specimens of the species from the type locality and one female was identified as this species based on the shape of seventh abdominal sternite and subgenital plate, but two male specimens are more similar to Homogryllacris brevispina Shi, Guo & Bian, 2012 with respect to male abdominal apex and differ from original description of Homogryllacris platycis Liu & Bian, 2021 in the following: posterior processes on tenth abdominal tergite obviously longer, moderately incurved on the whole apart from basal areas, apical areas decussate and pointing outwards. Furthermore, according to results of molecular species delimitation in most species of Homogryllacris based on COI gene (unpublished), samples from Gulinqing, Maguan, Yunnan and Yaoshan, Hekou, Yunnan were assigned into a single molecular operational taxonomic unit (MOTU) in all five approaches. As a consequence, morphological difference of posterior processes on male tenth abdominal tergite is regarded as intraspecific variation.

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FIGURE 4. Homogryllacris platycis Liu & Bian, 2021 (specimens from Yaoshan, Hekou, Yunnan), male: A. face; B–C. head and pronotum: B. lateral view; C. dorsal view; D–G. apex of abdomen: D, E. apical view; F, G. lateral view; H. subgenital plate; female: I. seventh abdominal sternite and subgenital plate; J. ovipositor in lateral view.

FIGURE 5. Homogryllacris platycis Liu & Bian, 2021 (specimens from the type locality), male: A. face; B–C. head and pronotum: B. lateral view; C. dorsal view; D–H. apex of abdomen: D, E. apical view; F, G. lateral view; H. ventral view; female: I. seventh abdominal sternite and subgenital plate; J. ovipositor in lateral view.