Xizicus, Gorochov, 1993

Wang, Hanqiang, Jing, Jun, Liu, Xianwei & Li, Kai, 2014, Revision on genus Xizicus Gorochov (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Meconematinae, Meconematini) with description of three new species form China, Zootaxa 3861 (4), pp. 301-316 : 303

Xizicus s. str.

Type species: Xiphidiopsis fascipes Bey-Bienko, 1955

Body color variegated, dorsum of head with 4 dark longitudinal stripes, disc of pronotum usually covered by a wide dark brand with black lateral edges, tegmina with a distinct dark spot, hind femora with 3 latitudinal dark bands. Posterior margin of male 10 th abdominal tergite with a single bifid process of which apex enlarged laterally, subgenital plate of male somehow convex at posterior margin between short styli. Hind margin of female subgenital plate rounded, ovipositor long and relative straight.

Diagnosis. We have examined the specimens of type species before they dried, found the posterior marginal process of abdominal tergite 10 cleaving at the end tip, two parts pressing against each other ahead till the oblique site where the process breaks as in fig. 3. We regard it as a single process which bears a deep sulcus.

Species included: Xizicus (Xizicus) fascipes ( Bey-Bienko, 1955) , Xizicus (Xizicus) proximus Gorochov, 1998 , Xizicus (Xizicus) kaltenbachi Sänger & Helfert, 2006 , Xizicus (Xizicus) daedalus Gorochov, 2011 , Xizicus (Xizicus) spinicauda ( Sänger & Helfert, 1998)