Xizicus (Haploxizicus) Wang, Jing, Liu, Li, 2014

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 : 311-314

Xizicus (Haploxizicus) Wang, Jing, Liu, Li , subgen. nov.

Type species: Xiphidiopsis szechwanensis Tinkham, 1944 , here designated.

Body dark brown with blackish stripe, disc of vertex with 4 dark longitudinal bands, tegmina with conspicuous dark spots, hind femora without any dark latitudinal bands. Male metazona no longer than prozona, no process at hind margin of 10 th abdominal tergite, cerci very simple without any processes or lobes, apex compressed, subgenital plate as usual, styli not degenerated.

Etymology. The subgeneric name is formed from a combinations of prefix ‘haplo’ and ‘Xizicus’ which refers to features of male cerci.

Diagnosis. This subgenus is a combination of the known five species which had described as Xiphidiopsis originally before assigned to Eoxizicus and Axizicus , all recognized by apically compressed male cerci, processless hind margin of male 10 th abdominal tergite and normal male subgenital plate.

Xizicus (Haploxizicus) szechwanensis ( Tinkham, 1944) Wang, Jing, Liu, Li comb. nov.

Xiphidiopsis szechwanensis Tinkham, 1944: 518 ; Xia & Liu, 1992: 96; Liu & Jin,1994: 111; Jin & Xia, 1994: 27. Euxiphidiopsis szechwanensis Liu & Zhang, 2001: 95 ; Shi & Wang, 2005: 70.

Xizicus (Axizicus?) szechwanensis Gorochov et. al., 2005: 77.

Material examined. 1♀, alt. 800–1000m, 1957.VII.15, leg. HUANG Ke-Ren ; 1♂, Baoguosi, Emeishan , Sichuan, alt. 550–750m, 1957.VII.27 , leg. ZHU Fu-Xing; 1♀, Hongmaochong, Huaping , Guangxi, 1962.VIII.21 , anonymous; 1♀, Jianfengling , Hainan, 1981. VI.30, leg. LIN You-Dong; 1♀, Moganshan , Zhejiang, 1981.VII.21 , leg. YAN Heng-Yuan; 7♀♀, Tianmushan , Zhejiang, 1981.VII.21 , YAN Heng-Yuan ; 1♂, Yaan , Sichuan, 1985.IX.1 , leg. JIN Gen-Tao; 1♂ 2♀♀, Jiulianshan , Jiangxi, alt. 450m, 1986.IX.8 , leg. ZHENG Jian-Zhong , GAN Guo-Pei ; 1♀, Emeishan , Sichuan, 1987.VIII.6 , leg. LIU Xian-Wei; 1♀, Huangshan , 1987.IX.1, leg. BI Dao-Ying, HE XiuSong ; 2♀♀, Tianpingshan, Sangzhi , Hunan, alt. 1100m, 1988.VIII.18 , leg. YANG Xing-Ke; 11♂♂ 15♀♀, Suoxiyu, Cili , Hunan, 1988.IX.1–4 , leg. LIU Xian-Wei; 2♀♀, Tianmushan , Zhejiang, 1989.VIII.29 , leg. LIU Xian-Wei; 2♀♀, Mao’er mountain , alt. 700–800m, 1992.VIII.24 , leg. JIANG Zheng-Hui ; 1♂, Waidong, Huanjiang , Guangxi, alt. 600–960m, 1994.VIII.22 , leg. JIANG Zong-Yu; 1♂ 1♀, Laodian, Tianmushan , Zhejiang, 1999.X.11–13 , leg. LIU Xian-Wei , YIN Hai-Sheng ; 1♂ 5♀♀, Mengdingshan, Yaan , Sichuan, alt. 1450m, 2007.VII.31–VIII.1 , LIU Xian-Wei et.al .; 1♂, Wuxiangang, Emeishan , Sichuan, alt. 700m, 2007.VIII.2–4 , LIU Xian-Wei et.al .; 2♀♀, west Tianmushan , Zhejiang, alt. 350m, 2008.VIII.15–19, leg. BI Wen-Xuan ; 1♀, Tianmushan , alt. 245–1000m, 2009. VI.23–30, leg. WU Jie .

Distribution. China (Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Hainan).