Tachycines (Tachycines) svenhedini Karny, 1933

Qin, Yanyan, Wang, Hanqiang, Liu, Xianwei & Li, Kai, 2018, Divided the genus Tachycines Adelung (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae; Aemodogryllini) from China, Zootaxa 4374 (4), pp. 451-475 : 457

4. Tachycines (Tachycines) svenhedini Karny, 1933

Tachycines svenhedini Karny, 1933 . Ark. Zool. A., 26 (2), 1.

Tachycines (Tachycines) svenhedini Storozhenko, 1990 . Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie., 69 (4), 846. Tachycines svenhedini Jin , X-, Bao, Xia, K-, Ling, 1994. Jour. Orth. Res., 3, 18.

Description. Male. Body medium sized. Vertex of head divided into conical tubercles. Legs elongate and slender; fore femora about 1.8 times as long as the pronotum, ventrally unarmed, internal knee lobe with a small spine, external genicular lobe with 1 elongate movable spur; fore tibia ventrally with 2 external and 1 internal spur(s). Mid femora with an elongate movable spur on the internal and genicular lobe, ventrally unarmed; mid tibiae ventrally with 1 external and 1 internal spur. Hind femora ventrally with 6–7 inter spines and without outer spines; hind tibiae above with 65–70 outer and inner spines respectively, arranged in groups. Super internal spur of hind tibiae almost at the position of the dorso-apical spine of metatarsus. Hind metatarsus keeled ventrally.

Female. Unknown.

Coloration. Body dark brown with stripes. Face with 4 black longitudinal stripes. Legs with black annular stripes.

Measurements. (length in mm) Body ♂ 15.0; pronotum ♂ 5.5; fore femora ♂ 10.3 hind femora ♂ 18.5.

Distribution. China (Gansu).

Diagnosis. This species is rather similar to T. (T.) bilobata sp. nov. and T. (T.) karnyi sp. nov., but differs from the latter in that: hind femora with 6–7 internal spines beneath; distributed in Gansu of China.