Furcilarnaca brachyptera, Li, Miaomiao, Sun, Mei Ling, Liu, Xianwei & Li, Kai, 2015

Li, Miaomiao, Sun, Mei Ling, Liu, Xianwei & Li, Kai, 2015, A taxonomic study on the species of the genus Furcilarnaca (Orthoptera, Gryllacrididae, Gryllacridinae), Zootaxa 4039 (3), pp. 418-430 : 425-426

8. Furcilarnaca brachyptera sp. nov.

( Figs. 16–17 )

Description. Male. Body small sized, slender form. Head broadly oval, fastigium of vertex about 2 times as broad as scape. Anterior margin of pronotum slightly convex, hind margin straight. Tegmina not extending beyond apex of hind femur; R vein with 4 branches, Rs arising from R vein nearly in the middle; M vein simple; Cu1 vein with 2 branches; A vein with 4 branches. Wings slightly extending beyond tegmina. Hind femur with 3–4 inter spines and 5–7 outer spines on ventral surface; hind tibia on dorsal surface with 3–5 outer spines and 5–6 inter spines. Hind margin of male 10th abdominal tergite with 2 pairs of spine-like processes. Subgenital plate divided to lobes, lobes triangular and hairy in the inside ( Fig. 16 ). Styli situated at the base of subgenital plate, cylindrical.

Female. Subgenital plate broadly long, hind margin with triangular incision, lobes corniform ( Fig. 17 ). Ovipositor straight, with subacute apex.

Coloration. Body pale yellowish-brown, unicolor. Eyes blackish brown.

Measurements. (in mm) Material. Holotype, ♂, Paratype, 1♀, China, Yunnan, Shaotong, Huanghua, 2007. VII.2, collector unknown; 1♀, China, Yunnan, Shaotong, Huanghua, 2010.VIII collected by Zhang Ding-Jie.

Distribution. China (Yunnan).

Discussion. This new species with short tegmina and not reaching the apex of abdominal; the shape of end of male abdominal distinguishable from F. wufengensis Bian et al., 2013 .

Figures

FIGURES 16 – 17. Furcilarnaca brachyptera sp. nov.. 16. End of male abdomen, ventral view; 17. Subgenital plate of female, ventral view. Scale bars = 1 mm.