Mecopoda tibetensis, Liu & Heller & Wang & Yang & Wu & Liu & Zhang, 2020

Liu, Chun-Xiang, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Wang, Xue-Song, Yang, Zhen, Wu, Chao, Liu, Fei & Zhang, Tao, 2020, Taxonomy of a katydid genus Mecopoda Serville (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Mecopodinae) from East Asia, Zootaxa 4758 (2), pp. 296-310 : 304

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4758.2.5

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3812297

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scientific name

Mecopoda tibetensis
status

sp. nov.

Mecopoda tibetensis sp. nov. Liu

( Figs 5f View FIGURE 5 ; 6f View FIGURE 6 )

Holotype. male, CHINA: Tibet, Motuo, Maniweng, 2006.VIII., CX Liu.

Paratypes. CHINA: Tibet, Motuo, Urban District , 6 males, 2 females, 1084m, 2006.VIII.21, HB LIANG & M BAI; 10 males, 2015.VIII.16, HB LIANG, QT WU & ZZ HUANG ; 1 males, Beibeng Village , 2015.VIII.21, HB LIANG & ZZ HUANG ( IZCAS) ; 2 males, at light, 108K near Zamo Road, Qiaotou Hotel, 2015.VIII.23, J YAO & MQ WANG; 1 male, Maniweng , 2 males, Didong, 2006.VIII., CX Liu .

Diagnosis. M. tibetensis is distinguished from M. himalaya by the comparatively long file and the comparatively wide right stridulatory apparatus ( Figs 5f View FIGURE 5 ; 6f View FIGURE 6 ; Tables 5–6). The species is only distributed in low altitudes of Tibet.

Etymology. The species name indicates its locality and distribution area.

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FIGURE 5. Male stridulatory file under the left tegmen. a: M. niponensis (Haan, 1843); b: M. fallax He, 2019; c: M. crescendo sp. nov.; d: M. himalaya sp. nov.; f: M. tibetensis sp. nov.; f: M. marmorata He; g: M. confracta sp. nov.; h: M. synconfracta sp. nov.; i: Mecopoda_“S” (Sismondo 1990); j: Mecopda sp. from Vietnam; k: M. elongata elongata from India; l: M. minor minor subsp. nov.; m: M. m. yunnana subsp. nov..

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FIGURE 6. Male right stridulatory apparatus on the right tegmen. a: M. niponensis (Haan, 1843); b: M. fallax He, 2019; c: M. crescendo sp. nov.; d: M. himalaya sp. nov.; f: M. tibetensis sp. nov.; f: M. marmorata He; g: M. confracta sp. nov.; h: M. synconfracta sp. nov.; i: Mecopoda_“S” (Sismondo 1990); j: Mecopda sp. from Vietnam; k: M. elongata elongata from India; l: M. minor minor subsp. nov.; m: M. m. yunnana subsp. nov..

WU

Wayland University

IZCAS

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Phaneropteridae

SubFamily

Mecopodinae

Genus

Mecopoda