Xizicus (Paraxizicus) Liu, 2004

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 : 305

Xizicus (Paraxizicus) Liu, 2004

Xizicus (Paraxizicus) Liu & Yin, 2004 : Insects from Mt. Shiwandashan Area of Guangxi, 100.

Type species: Xizicus (Paraxizicus) anisocercus Liu, 2004

Body brown with blackish stripe, disc of vertex with 4 dark longitudinal bands, tegmina accompanied distinct dark spot, hind femora without dark latitudinal bands. Metazona no longer than prozona; wings fully developed; a forked process present on posterior margin of 10 th abdominal tergite, male cerci lobed or processed, a lump of membrane appears under lateral margin of 10 th abdominal tergite, subgenital plate specialized, apex spinous. Hind margin of female subgenital plate concave in middle.

Diagnosis. Paraxizicus differs from the nominate subgenus in absence of hind femora stripes, membranous protrusions under male 10 th abdominal tergite and very specialized male subgenital plate.

Discussion. The generic name Paraxizicus first mentioned by Liu in 2004 for the erection of a subgenus which subdivided from Xizicus , while Gorochov used the same in 2005 for the erection of a genus about a group of very different species, apparently Paraxizicus Gorochov, 2005 is a homonym of Xizicus (Paraxizcus) Liu, 2004 . In fact Liu have already dealt with it in 2010.