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Zulpha perlaria

  • 1. Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China & tjolo 1985 @ aliyun. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5545 - 0151 & liucx @ ioz. ac. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6313 - 196 X
  • 2. No. 73, Lane 518, Jinhui Road, Shanghai, 201103, China & rz 1720 @ ic. ac. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2819 - 9731
  • 3. School of Agriculture, Yangtze University, No. 266, Jingmi Road, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, 434000, China & wang. xiang. ping @ 126. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0650 - 0255

Description

Zulpha perlaria (Westwood, 1848) Figs 3A, 4 B–C, 6A, 6D, 7A–B, 8A, 9C, 10A, 12

Phaneroptera perlaria Westwood. 1848: 33. Eurypalpa perlaria. Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1878: 142; Zulpha perlaria. Walker, 1870: 479; Krausze, A.H. 1904: 44; Kirby, W.F. 1906: 408; Karny. 1926: 46; Kang, Liu & Liu. 2014: 452.Location of type:

UMO.

Type locality: Australasia, Australia, Queensland, Prince of Wales Island. Type most likely mislabeled.

Examined specimens:

1³, Indonesia: Java, 2001-II (IZCAS);5 ³, Malaysia: Saba, TrusMadi Mt.; N 5.4428°, E116.4514°; 1180m; 2017- IV-5 ~9; Chao Wu leg. (CWC). 1♀, ditto. (CJZ).

Body medium-sized. Pronotum short, bumpy, with distinct transverse sulcus on disc. Lateral lobes of pronotum with sharply angular apex (Fig. 6A).

Stridulatory file of left tegmen slim, elongated, nearly straight, only curved at the tapering basal part, about 3.27–3.31 mm long, with 54–58 densely arranged teeth. Stridulatory teeth densely arranged, with those in basal area obsolescent, and those in distal area weak (Fig. 8A).

Cerci obviously introvert, densely hairy, with obtuse granulated apex (Fig. 6D).

Coloration. Generally brown, with irregular black spots. Antennae brown, with not obvious irregular sandybeige markings. Hind wings blackish violet, scattered with round rose spots; venation white, and apical area brown. Legs with dark brown spots. Cerci yellowish brown, with inner black middle part and apex.

Measurements (mm).

length of pronotum: ³ 6.15–6.23, ♀ 5.91; height of pronotum: ³ 5.90–6.15, ♀ 6.87; length of tegmen: ³ 40.80–40.95, ♀ 46.1; width of tegmen: ³ 8.95–8.98, ♀ 9.39; length of anterior femur: ³ 5.20–5.25, ♀ 5.47; length of posterior femur: ³ 15.60–15.65, ♀ 16.02; length of posterior tibiae: ³15.42–15.48, ♀ 15.53. length ovipositor: 9.32.

Distribution. Australia, Queensland, Prince of Wales Island; Papua New Guinea; Malaysia; Indonesia.

Notes. Although the type locality is Australia (Queensland), but it seems that there has been no record from the type locality. The species is widely recorded in southeast Asia.

Notes

Published as part of Wu, Chao, Zhang, Jia-Zhi, Wang, Xiangping & Liu, Chun-Xiang, 2020, Notes on Eurypalpae genus group (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) with description of two new species, pp. 111-122 in Zootaxa 4894 (1) on pages 114-115, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4894.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4315539

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CWC, CJZ , IZCAS , Umo
Event date
2017-04-05
Family
Phaneropteridae
Genus
Zulpha
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Westwood
Species
perlaria
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
2017-04-05
Taxonomic concept label
Zulpha perlaria (Westwood, 1848) sec. Wu, Zhang, Wang & Liu, 2020

References

  • Walker, F. (1870) s. n. In: Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. Vol. 3. Printed for the Trustees of the British Museum, London, pp. 478 - 479.