Indogneta lata Ingrisch & Shishodia

Liu, Chun-Xiang & Kang, Le, 2007, New taxa and records of Phaneropterinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from China, Zootaxa 1624, pp. 17-29 : 24-25

2. Indogneta lata Ingrisch & Shishodia ( Figs. 19–21 , 25–30 )

Indogneta lata Ingrisch & Shishodia, 2000 . Mitt. Münchner Ent. Gesell. 90: 10–12. Type: male, Indo-Malaysia: Northeast India: Mizoram, Aibawk (Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta).

Additional description: Male stridulatory area ( Figs. 19, 20–21 ) with posterior margin approximately straight; Male stridulatory file shuttle-like ( Fig. 20 ), with about 86-106 teeth, which are gradually becoming smaller from the center toward both ends ( Fig. 25 ); male right stridulatory area with distinct rectangular elongate mirror ( Fig. 21 ).

First description of female: Ovipositor slender, gradually upcurved, and 1.5 times longer than pronotum; dorsal margin thoroughly, and ventral margin in distal half, crenulate ( Fig. 29 ). Subgenital plate wide triangular, with apex obtuse.

Color: Yellowish green (green when alive). Male tegmen with stridulatory area blackish brown except for translucent areas.

Measurement (mm): Length of body: male 20.5, female 23.0; length of pronotum: male 4.5, female 4.5; width of pronotum: male 2.8, female 2.5; length of tegmen: male 33.0, female 32.5; largest width of tegmen: male 6.5, female 6.0; length of hind wing: male 39.0, female 37.0; length of hind femur: male 23.5, female 24.0; length of ovipositor 7.0; greatest width of ovipositor 2.0.

Material examined: CHINA: Guangxi Prov.: Long’an: Longhu Mt.: 5males, 16females, 29.viii.– 1.ix.1995, Coll. Liu Xianwei, Jin Xingbao ( IEAS); 15males, 20females, 11–13.viii.2007, Coll. Liu Chunxiang ( IZAS); CHINA: Guangxi Prov.: Longzhou: Nonggang: 1female, 18–23.viii.1995, Coll. Liu Xianwei, Jin Xingbao, Zhang Weinian ( IEAS); 1 female, 14.viii.2007, Coll. Liu Chunxiang ( IZAS); at light, CHINA: Hainan Island: Baisha County, Yinggeling Nature Reserve, 1000 m, 5males, 8females, 27.viii.-4.ix.2004, Coll. Liu Chunxiang ( IZAS).

Distribution: China: Guangxi Prov. (Longzhou, Long’an), Hainan Island (Baisha); India.

Figures

FIGURES 19 – 24. male stridulatory area. 19 - 21, Indogneta lata Ingrisch & Shishodia from Long’an, Guangxi Prov., China; 22 - 24, Qinlingea brachystylata (Liu & Wang), paratype. 19, 22, male stridulatory area, dorsal view; 20, 23, male left stridulatory area, dorsal view; 21, 24, male right stridulatory area, dorsal view.

FIGURES 25 – 30. Indogneta lata Ingrisch & Shishodia from Long’an, Guangxi Prov., China. 25, stridulatory file on underside of male left tegmen; 26, male abdominal apex, lateral view; 27, male cerci, dorsal view; 28, enlarged male cerci, apical view; 29, female abdominal apex, lateral view; 30, male subgenital plate, ventral view. (Scale bar = 1 mm).