Published July 9, 2024 | Version v1
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Fissilobulata Pan & Bian, 2024, gen. nov.

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Ecology of Rare and Endangered Species and Environmental Protection (Guangxi Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guilin 541006, China & Guangxi Key Laboratory of Rare and Endangered Animal Ecology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541006, China

Description

Fissilobulata gen. nov.

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Type species: Fissilobulata longiloba sp. nov.

Generic characters. Body stout. Fastigium verticis conical, apex rounded, with longitudinal sulcus on dorsal surface.Apical segments of maxillary palpi approximately equated in length with subapical segments, apices faintly swollen. Pronotum short, lateral lobes longer than deep, humeral sinus absent. Tegmina shorter, slightly surpassing the posterior margin of pronotum; hind wings absent. All femora without spine on ventral surfaces; fore tibial tympana open on both sides; genicular lobes of hind femora with apices rounded, tibiae apically with a pair of dorsal spurs and 2 pairs of ventral spurs. Lateral margins of male ninth abdominal tergite elongated backward and curved ventrally, tenth abdominal tergite narrow without any process; cerci simple, only reaching the basal area of ninth abdominal tergite; genitalia sclerotized, exposed; posterior margin of male subgenital plate with a large median lobe and styli. Female subgenital plate posteriorly concave, the lateral lobes triangular; ovipositor stout, slightly upcurved, apices acute.

Discussion. The new genus is very similar to Acosmetides Chang, Wang & Shi, 2021, Macrocosmetura Chang, Wang & Shi, 2021, Neocyrtopsides Chang, Wang & Shi, 2021, Neocyrtopsis Liu & Zhang, 2007 and Sinocosmetura Guo, Shi & Chang, 2021 in appearance, especially the first three genera. To better understand the newly established genus, we provide species morphological illustrations of the five known genera mentioned above. The new genus can be distinguished by: male ninth abdominal tergite elongated backwards forming a pair of long processes contacting each other, genitalia sclerotized, subgenital plate with a median lobe; female subgenital plate with a median concavity on posterior margin.

Etymology. The name of the new genus refers to the long process of male ninth abdominal tergite.

Notes

Published as part of Pan, Yangyang & Bian, Xun, 2024, One new genus and species of the tribe Meconematini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from Yunnan, China, pp. 315-332 in Zootaxa 5477 (3) on page 316, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/12732900

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Pan & Bian
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Fissilobulata
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Fissilobulata Pan & Bian, 2024

References

  • Chang, Y. L., Wang, T. & Shi, F. M. (2021) Three new genera and five new species of the tribe Meconematini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from Southwestern China. European Journal of Taxonomy, 751, 140 - 158. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2021.751.1385
  • Guo, Q., Shi, F. M. & Chang, Y. L. (2021) One new genus and species of the tribe Meconematini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematini) from Yunnan, China. Zootaxa, 5020 (2), 397 - 400. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5020.2.10