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Mecopoda fallax He 2019

Description

Mecopoda fallax He, 2019

(Figs 1 f–j; 5b; 6b)

Mecopoda fallax He, 2019. In Liu et al., Zootaxa 4585(3):571 (Holotype, male, origin. Descript.; type locality: China, China South-central, Yunnan, Mangshi; type depository: ECNU)

Examined material. China: Guangxi Province: 8 males, Nanning City, Daming Mountain, 2013.IX.28; 1 male, 1 female, Longzhou County, Nonggang, 2012.VII.; 12 males, 3 females, China: Hainan Province: Shuiman Township, Wuzhishan Mountain, 2014.X.16; 9 males, 3 females, Yunnan Province: Wenshan Prefecture, Malipo, 2014.XI.14.

Diagnosis. The species is distinguished from M. niponensis by the comparatively long wide tegmen (see measurements in Tables 5–6).

Bioacoustics. The species differs from M. niponensis by the much shorter period of a single song unit, and that three phases are made up of repeated simple syllables (see song parameters in Table 2). The species is widely distributed in South and southwestern China (only including Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan and Yunnan).

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 303, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4758.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3734484

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Biodiversity

Event date
2013-09-28 , 2014-10-16
Family
Phaneropteridae
Genus
Mecopoda
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
He
Species
fallax
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2013-09-28 , 2014-10-16/11-14
Taxonomic concept label
Mecopoda fallax He, 2019 sec. Liu, Heller, Wang, Yang, Wu, Liu & Zhang, 2020