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Mecopoda himalaya Liu & Heller & Wang & Yang & Wu & Liu & Zhang 2020, sp. nov.
Description
Mecopoda himalaya sp. nov. Liu
(Figs 1 p–r; 5d; 6d)
Holotype. male, CHINA: Yunnan, Honghe City, Jinping County, Mengqiao Village, Mengping, 474m, 2013.VIII.21, CX LIU, K-G HELLER.
Paratypes. 1 male, CHINA: Yunnan, Honghe City, Jinping County, Surburb of Jinping County, 500m, 2013. VIII.17, CX LIU, K-G HELLER.
Diagnosis. M. himalaya is distinguished from the species in the species group niponensis by the low number of teeth and largest tooth density (Figs 5d; Table 5) and continuous song, which consists of repeated unchanged simple syllables (Fig. 1 p–r). The species is only distributed in low altitudes of Yunnan Province in China.
Etymology. The species name indicates its locality and distribution area.
Notes
Published as part of 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, pp. 296-310 in Zootaxa 4758 (2) on page 304, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4758.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3734484
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2013-08-17 , 2013-08-21
- Family
- Phaneropteridae
- Genus
- Mecopoda
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Liu & Heller & Wang & Yang & Wu & Liu & Zhang
- Species
- himalaya
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Verbatim event date
- 2013-08-17 , 2013-08-21
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mecopoda himalaya Liu, Heller, Wang, Yang, Wu, Liu & Zhang, 2020