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Phlugiolopsis minuta Tinkham 1943

Description

3. Phlugiolopsis minuta (Tinkham, 1943)

(Map. 1, Figs. 3, 12: G–H)

Xiphidiopsis minutus Tinkham, 1943: 40, 42; Tinkham, 1944: 508; Tinkham, 1956: 5.

Phlugiolopsis minutus Yamasaki, 1986: 357.

Phlugiolopsis minuta Jin & Xia, 1994: 26; Liu & Jin, 1994: 109; Liu & Zhang, 2001: 96; Shi & Ou, 2005: 358. Phlugiolopsis fallax Xia & Liu, 1993: 110; Liu & Jin, 1994: 109; Jin & Xia, 1994: 26 (synonymized by Liu & Zhang, 2001: 96).

Type specimen: female; type locality: Guling (Lushan), Jiangxi, China; location of type specimen: Shanghai Entomological Museum of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Redescription. Male. Subgenital plate longer than wide, basal half slightly broad, narrowing, basal margin excavate, posterior margin angularly rounded. In some specimens, posterior margin obtusely rounded. Subapex of subgenital plate with conical styli on ventral margin, apices obtuse.

Female. Cerci conical, stout, apices acute, sometimes apical half spine-shaped. Ovipositor short, base stout, narrowing, dorsal valvulae slightly longer than ventral ones; dorsal valvulae sharply pointed and ventral ones with a small dinstinct or indistinct terminal hook.

Material examined. 2 females, Jinxiu, Guangxi, 17 August 2000, collected Chao-Ming Wei; 6 males and 1 female, Dayaoshan, Jinxiu, Guangxi, 25 September 2011, collected by Xun Bian; 1 male and 3 females, Huangsha, Lingui, Guangxi, 13 August 2006, collected by Shao-Li Mao and Li-Juan Wang; 1 male and 1 female, Huangsha, Lingui, Guangxi, 28 Semptember 2011, collected by Xun Bian; 1 female, Anjiangping, Longsheng, Guangxi, 21 September 2011, Chao Gao and Ji-Liang Wang; 9 males and 8 females, Maoʹershan, Xingʹan, Guangxi, 19 Semptember 2011, collected by Xun Bian; 1 male and 1 female, Maoʹershan, Xingʹan, Guangxi, 21 Semptember 2011, collected by Xun Bian; 1 female, Hengshan, Hunan, 8 September 2003, collected by Jian-Hua Huang; 1 male and 2 females, Hengshan, Hunan, 29 August 2007, collected by Jian-Hua Huang.

Distribution. China (Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang).

Notes

Published as part of Bian, Xun, Shi, Fu-Ming & Chang, Yan-Lin, 2012, Review of the genus Phlugiolopsis Zeuner, 1940 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from China, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 3281 on pages 6-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.209923

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Phlugiolopsis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Tinkham
Species
minuta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Phlugiolopsis minuta Tinkham, 1943 sec. Bian, Shi & Chang, 2012

References

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  • Tinkham, E. R. (1944) Twelve new species of Chinese leaf-katydids of the genus Xiphidiopsis. Proceedings of United States National Museum, 94, 505 - 527.
  • Tinkham, E. R. (1956) Four new Chinese species of Xiphidiopsis (Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 82, 1 - 16.
  • Yamasaki, T. (1986) Discovery of Phlugiolopsis (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) in the Ryuku Islands. Kontyu, Tokyo, 54 (2), 353 - 358.
  • Jin, X. - B. & Xia, K. - L. (1994) An index-catalogue of Chinese Tettigonioidea (Orthopteroidea: Grylloptera). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 3, 15 - 41.
  • Liu, X. - W. & Jin, X. - B. (1994) List of Chinese Stenopelmatoidea and Tettigonioidea (Grylloptera). Contributions to Shanghai Institute of Entomology, 11, 99 - 118.
  • Liu, X. - W. & Zhang, W. - N. (2001) Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea: Rhahidophoroidea and Gryllacridoidea. In: Wu, H. and Pan, C- W. (Ed.) Insects of Tianmushan National Nature Reserve. Science Press, Beijing. 90 - 102.
  • Shi, F. - M. & Ou, X-H. (2005) A review of the genus Phlugiolopsis with description of a new species from China (Orthoptera, Meconematidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 30 (2), 358 - 362.
  • Xia, K. - L. & Liu, X. - W. (1993) Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea and Gryllodiea In: Huang, F-S (Ed.) Insects of Wuling Mountains Aera, Southwestern China. Science Press, Beijing, 87 - 113.