Published September 12, 2007 | Version v1
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Alloxiphidiopsis Liu & Zhang 2007

Description

Key to the species of Alloxiphidiopsis

1 Tegmina with blackish brown spots; cerci of male symmetrical................................................................. 2

- Tegmina without blackish brown spots; cerci of male asymmetrical.......................................................... 3

2 Median process of male 9 th abdominal tergite hardly reaching hind margin of last abdominal tergite, its apex rounded. Subgenital plate of female weakly emarginated ................. A. emarginata (Tinkham, 1944)

- Median process of male 9 th abdominal tergite extending beyond last abdominal tergite, its apex lobed; subgenital plate of female deeply forked, with compressed lateral lobes ......................... A. cyclolamina sp. n.

3 9 th abdominal tergite of male with asymmetrical median process ........... A. irregularis (Bey-Bienko, 1962)

- 9 th abdominal tergite of male with symmetrical median process.................................................................4

4 9 th abdominal tergite of male with very long median process, shaped as in Fig. 11; male left cercus distinctly longer than right one. ......................................................................................... A. longicauda sp. n.

- 9 th abdominal tergite of male with shorter median process, shaped as Fig. 14; male left cercus as long as right one. ............................................................................................................................... A. lovalis sp. n.

Notes

Published as part of Liu, Xianwei & Zhang, Dingjie, 2007, A new genus of the tribe Meconematini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), pp. 37-43 in Zootaxa 1581 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1581.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5097455

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Liu & Zhang
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Alloxiphidiopsis
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Alloxiphidiopsis Liu, 2007 sec. Liu & Zhang, 2007

References

  • Tinkham, ER. (1944) Twelve new species of Chinese leaf-katydids of the genus Xiphidiopsis. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 94, 505 - 527.
  • Bey-Bienko, GJ. (1962) Results of the Chinese - Soviet Zoologicalbotanical expeditions to South-Western China 1955 - 1957. New or less-known Tettigonioidea (Orthoptera) from Szechuan and Yunnan. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, 30, 110 - 138.