Cyrtopsis scutigera Bey-Bienko, 1962

Wang, Hanqiang, Qin, Yanyan, Liu, Xianwei & Li, Kai, 2015, Review of the genus Cyrtopsis Bey-Bienko with a new species, a new combination and some new descriptions, Zootaxa 4057 (3), pp. 353-370 : 355

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Cyrtopsis scutigera Bey-Bienko, 1962 View in CoL

Cyrtopsis scutigera: Bey-Bienko, 1962 View in CoL , Trudy Onst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 30, 132; Beier, 1966, Orthopterorum Catalogus, 9, 281; Liu & Jin, 1994, Contr. Shanghai Inst. Entomol., 11, 109; Jin & Xia, 1994, Jour. Orth. Res., 3, 26; Gorochov, 1998, Zoosystematica Rossica, 7(1), 120.

Cyrtopsis (Cyrtopsis) scutigera: Liu & Zhang, 2007 View in CoL , Entomotaxonomia, 29(2), 86–87.

Description (after Liu & Zhang, 2007). Male body larger, stout. Fastigium of vertex conical, stout and furrowed dorsally, apex blunt, compound eyes relatively small; last segment of maxillary palp longer than preceding. Metazona as long as prozona, raised and posterior area decurved, paranota relative deep, hind margin almost obliquely truncate; tegmina exceeding hind margin of pronotum, extending to 5th abdominal tergite, hind wings reduced; fore tibiae each armed spines by type 4, 4 (1, 1), mid tibiae each with 3 inner and 5 outer spines, hind tibiae each with 18 dorsal teeth either margin above. 10th abdominal tergite bearing a faintly compressed process at the middle of hind margin, the process deep divided, terminally slightly globularly expanded, left and right halves asymmetric, a conical tubercle protruding dorsad; epiproct reduced and oval, cerci longer, base slightly stout, lobate expanded at inner margin submedian, tapering to apex, apex blunt; titillator sclerotized in lateral and apical parts; subgenital plate longer than wide, base wider, narrowing apically, hind margin gently concave, styli conical on either side.

Female unknown.

Coloration. Body yellowish with darkish brown stripes or markings. Dorsum of pronotum with brown longitudinal band, expand in metazona, lateral margins inlayed with darkish brown stripes.

Measurements (in mm). Body ♂ 12.5; pronotum ♂ 5.9; tegmina ♂ 3.0; hind femora ♂ 12.7.

Materials. Not examined.

Type locality. Pingbian, Yunnan; type specimen deposits in IZCAS (Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Beijing, China.

Distribution. China (Yunnan).

References

Beier, M. (1966) Tettigoniidae: Subfam. Meconematinae, Mecopodinae, Phyllophorinae. Orthopterorum Catalogus, 9, 247 - 342.

Bey-Bienko, G. Y. (1962) Results of the Chinese-Soviet zoological-botanical expeditions to south-western China 1955 - 1957. New or less known Tettigonioidea (Orthoptera) from Szechuan and Yunnan. Trudy Zoologitscheskogo Instituta, Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Leningrad [= Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad], 30, 110 - 138.

Gorochov, A. V. (1998) New and little known Meconematinae of the tribes Meconematini and Phlugidini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 7 (1), 101 - 131.

Jin, X. B. & Xia, K. L. (1994) An index-catalogue of Chinese Tettigoniodea (Orthopteroidea: Grylloptera). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 3, 15 - 41.

Liu, X. W. & Jin, X. B. (1994) List of Chinese Stenopelmatoidea and Tettigonioidea (Grylloptera). Contributions from Shanghai Institute of Entomology, 11, 99 - 118.

Liu, X. W. & Zhang, D. J. (2007) A new subgenus and new species of the genus Cyrtopsis (Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea: Meconematidae). Entomotaxonomia, 29 (2), 85 - 91.