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Leptoderes Serville 1838

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Leptoderes Serville, 1838

Leptoderes Serville, 1838 [1839]. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères 409; Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1878. Monographie der Phaneropteriden 18, 104; Kirby, 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:408; Uvarov. 1922. Trans. Entomol. Soc. London 70:269–274; Kang et al., 2014. Fauna Sinica Insecta 57. Orthoptera Tettigoniidae Phaneropterinae 448.

Condylodera Westwood, 1841. Trans. Linn. Soc. London 18:419; Karny, 1929. Zool. Anz. 82:233 (syn.).

Euparthenus Saussure, 1898. Revue Suisse de Zool. 5:228, 809; Kirby. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:408 (syn.).

Trochalodera Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878. Monographie der Phaneropteriden 18, 143; Kirby. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:409; Karny, 1926. Jour. Fed. Malay States Mus. 13(2– 3):81 (syn.).

Type species: Leptoderes ornatipennis Serville, 1838

Redescription. Medium-sized for mimetic leaf phaneropterine tettigoniids. Head elongate, ovoid, surface smooth. Vertex of occiput deflexed, dorsally sulcate, narrower than basal segment of antennae. Eyes slightly rounded, bulging. Antennae longer than body, slender, long. Pronotum significantly elongate, triangular. Anterior tibiae dorsally nearly flat, with tympanum conchate on both sides; broadened and gradually constricted below tympana. Legs slender, long. Anterior coxae armed with a sharp spine. Anterior and median femora with small spines on ventro-anterior margin; posterior femur with a few spines only near apex on ventro-posterior margin. Anterior tibiae with tympanum conchate on both sides, widened at and abruptly constricted below tympana. Median tibiae dorsally with distinct groove, with or without dorsal spines; posterior tibiae with dorsal spines on both sides. Tegmen very broad, elongate, but shorter than hind wing. Apex of tegmen rounded. Hind wing translucent with exception of apical area; anal area distinctly broadened, with colored bars. Male abdomen short. Male epiproct simple. Male subgenital plate elongate, with notch at apex; styli clavate. Male cerci long, clavate and incurved. Male genitalia membranous, without sclerotized structure.

Female similar to male. Cerci conical. Ovipositor strong, falcate, with distinct teeth on dorsal margin.

Biology. Males produce simple and short calling songs, which include a few long-interval sole tones. They can be attracted to light. Nymphs seem to mimic a wingless tiger beetle Tricondyla Latreille, 1822 (Coleoptera: Carabidae).

Included species. Leptoderes flavipennis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891 (Sri Lanka); L. fumosa (Uvarov, 1923) (Sri Lanka); L. ornatipennis Serville, 1838 (Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia); L. shuzhenae sp. nov. (China-Tibet); L. dianensis sp. nov. (China-Yunnan)

Distribution. Sri Lanka; China; Malaysia; Myanmar; Thailand; Indonesia.

Notes

Published as part of Wu, Chao & Liu, Chunxiang, 2018, Two new species of the genus Leptoderes Serville, 1838 (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) from China, pp. 439-446 in Zootaxa 4497 (3) on pages 439-440, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4497.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/1455164

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4497.3.8 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Leptoderes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Serville
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Leptoderes Serville, 1838 sec. Wu & Liu, 2018

References

  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1878) Monographie der Phaneropteriden. Brockhaus, Wien, 144 pp.
  • Kirby, W. F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, 408 pp.
  • Uvarov, B. P. (1922) Notes on the Orthoptera in the British Museum. Transactions of the Entomological Society of Londo, 70, 273.
  • Kang, L., Liu, C. X. & Liu, X. W. (2014) Fauna Sinica Insecta 57. Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae. Science Press, Beijing, pp. 450 - 453.
  • Saussure, H. de (1898) Analecta entomologica. I. Orthopterologica. Famille des Mantides. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 5, 183 - 248, 787 - 809, pl. 1.
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1891) Additamentra zur Monographie der Phaneropteriden. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch- Botanischen Gesellsch, Wien, 196 pp.
  • Uvarov, B. P. (1923) Some new long-horned grasshoppers from Ceylon (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 12 (70), 528 - 532. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222932308632968