Mecopoda synconfracta, Liu & Heller & Wang & Yang & Wu & Liu & Zhang, 2020

Liu, Chun-Xiang, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Wang, Xue-Song, Yang, Zhen, Wu, Chao, Liu, Fei & Zhang, Tao, 2020, Taxonomy of a katydid genus Mecopoda Serville (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Mecopodinae) from East Asia, Zootaxa 4758 (2), pp. 296-310 : 305

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4758.2.5

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:57D4762E-D629-4E73-A59F-EE6A34DB8AB6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3812291

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A187E7-FF90-FFF5-06AA-DAC4FBF0F9A9

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scientific name

Mecopoda synconfracta
status

sp. nov.

Mecopoda synconfracta sp. n. Liu

( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 f–j; 5h; 6h)

Holotype. male, CHINA: Guangxi, Baise City, Tiandong City, Suburban District , 23.6311N, 107.1258E, 2014.XI., XS WANG. GoogleMaps

Paratypes. 12 males, same data as in holotype; CHINA : 31 males, 3 females, Guangdong, Shenzhen City, Suburban District , 22.6722N 113.9738E, 2014.XI.28, T ZHANG GoogleMaps ; Hainan Island, Jianfengling Nature Reserve , 18.74N, 108.74E GoogleMaps , 2 males, 4 females, 2014.X.22–26, C WU ; 3 males [IOZ(E)1918083, 1918084, 1918078], 2007.X.15–16, RR WANG & XY ZHU; 2 females [IOZ(E)1918106, 1918114], 4–6.v.2007, CX LIU; 1 male [IOZ(E)1918125], 19.v.2009, LH DANG ; 18 males, 13 females [IOZ(E)1918058-066, 1918072-076, 1918078, 1918080-082, 1918101, 1918137-139, 1918141-145, 1918147-148, 1918154], 2009.IX.23–XII.17, M LIN, T HU, Z ZHAO, J YAO & J LI; 3 males, Bawangling Nature Reserve , 2012.VIII.29, CX LIU ; 2 males, Guangxi, Shaoping , 2013.VIII., YY WANG ; 1 female, Yunnan, Hekou City, Nanxi, 2014. V .10, C WU.

Diagnosis. The new species is distinguished from M. confracta sp. nov. by the spacing of the teeth of the stridulatory file, of which the basal teeth are gradually becoming smaller proximad ( Fig. 5h View FIGURE 5 ).

Bioacoustics (see song parameters in Table 3). For its song type, a song unit is made up of several different-amplitude subunits. One subunit consists of 2 simple syllables. The neighboring subunits are broken ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 f–i). This new species is widely distributed in southern China (including Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hainan).

Etymology. The species name indicates its song unit consists of a series of chirps.

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

WU

Wayland University

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Phaneropteridae

Genus

Mecopoda

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