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Paraxantia tibetensis Liu & Kang 2009

  • 1. Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China & tjolo 1985 @ aliyun. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5545 - 0151
  • 2. Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China

Description

Paraxantia tibetensis Liu & Kang, 2009 OEAṂAEǴÃ

Figs. 1C; 3A, D; 4A, D, G; 5C; 6A, G; 7.

Paraxantia tibetensis Liu & Kang, 2009: 38–40; Kang, Liu & Liu, 2014: 463.

Type locality: China: Tibet, Linzhi, Pailong.

Examined specimens: China: 1♁ (Holotype), Tibet, Linzhi County, Pailong; 2100m; 02.IX.2005; Xiao-Lin Chen leg. (IZCAS). 1♁ (Paratype), Tibet, Bomi County, Tongmai; 2100m; 30.VIII.2005; Xiao-Lin Chen leg. (IZCAS). 2♁ (Paratypes), Tibet, Motuo County (= Medog), Hanmi; N 29.3664ºN 95.1277ºE, 2120m; VII.2006; Chun-Xiang Liu leg. (IZCAS). 2 ♁, Tibet, Linzhi, Medog; 23–26. VI.2022; Yue-Zheng Tu leg. (IZCAS).

Redescription.

Large-sized Paraxantia. Body green (Fig.6A). Cerci long, hairy, with one long sharp spine in middle, horizontally extending inwards; apex round and flat, spoon-shaped; dorsal furca missing (Fig. 4A). Phallic induration of male external genitalia hardened, pleated, densely covered with tiny spines; phallic lobes large, blade-shaped; lateral keel on robust triangular branches of titillator prickly (Fig. 4D, G).

Distribution. China: SE-Tibet.

Notes

Published as part of Wu, Chao & Liu, Chun-Xiang, 2023, The genus Paraxantia Liu & Kang (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae Vosiini) in Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains, revealing high diversity of species, pp. 367-376 in Zootaxa 5306 (3) on page 368, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5306.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/8063069

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
IZCAS , VI, IZCAS
Event date
2005-08-30 , 2005-09-02 , 2022-06-23
Verbatim event date
2005-08-30 , 2005-09-02 , 2022-06-23/26
Scientific name authorship
Liu & Kang
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Paraxantia
Species
tibetensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Paraxantia tibetensis Liu, 2009 sec. Wu & Liu, 2023

References

  • Liu, C. X. & Kang, L. (2009) A new genus, Paraxantia gen. nov., with descriptions of four new species (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) from China. Zootaxa, 2031 (1), 36 - 52. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2031.1.3
  • Kang, L., Liu, C. X. & Liu, X. W. (2014) Fauna Sinica Insecta 57. Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae. Science Press, Beijing, pp. 464 - 476. [in Chinese with English summary]