Lipotactes (Neolipotactes) montanus Ingrisch, 1990

Gorochov, A. V., 2021, Taxonomy of the katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from East Asia and adjacent islands. Communication 14, Far Eastern Entomologist 434, pp. 1-25 : 20-21

Lipotactes (Neolipotactes) montanus Ingrisch, 1990

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MATERIAL. Laos: 4 ♂, 6 ♀, Vientiane Prov., ~ 70 km NWW of Vientiane

City , Nam Lik Eco Vill. on Nam Lik River, 18.61469ºN, 102.40847ºE, ~ 200 m ,

10–30. VI 2017, A. Gorochov, M. Omelko.

NOTE. These specimens are very similar to the original description of this species

(Ingrisch, 1995). Here the species is recorded from Laos for the first time.

Subgenus Miolipotactes Gorochov , subgen. n.

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Type species Lipotactes minutissimus Gorochov, 2008 (Malay Peninsula).

DIAGNOSIS. Rostrum of head not vertically lamellar; male last tergite without posteromedian lobe but with a pair of posterior angular projections around epiproct;

male epiproct normal (roundly triangular, without any folds or lobules) but basally more or less fused with posterior edge of last tergite (between above-mentioned projections) and directed downwards; male paraproct short, rounded; male cercus very short, thick (especially in proximal part), with proximedial hook strongly and almost angularly curved but lacking any tubercles on its base or near it ( Fig. 47 );

male genitalia membranous with a pair of semimembranous stripes ( Fig. 48 ).

However, in one species possibly also belonging to this subgenus, posterolateral corners of dorsal part of male last tergite practically undeveloped, male epiproct probably separated from latter tergite, and male genitalia unstudied (see Ingrisch,

2021: fig. 4, E, F).

INCLUDED SPECIES. Type species; possibly L. angulatus Ingrisch, 2021

(Central Vietnam).

COMPARISON. The new subgenus is distinguished from all the previous subgenera of this genus by the male cercus very short and basally thick as well as with the proximedial hook lacking any tubercles on its base or near it (as in Prolipotactes and Dialipotactes ) but strongly and angularly curved. From Prolipotactes , the new subgenus also differs in the absence of a posteromedian lobe of the male last tergite,

and from Dialipotactes , in the male epiproct lacking any lateral lobules.

ETYMOLOGY. The new subgeneric name consists of the Latinized Greek prefix

“mio-” (smaller) and the generic name Lipotactes .

Figures

Figs 1–25. Lipotactes spp., schematically: 1–3 – L. (Lipotactes) alienus lambir subsp. n.;

Figs 41–65. Lipotactes spp., schematically: 41 – L. (Prolipotactes) hamatus wartabone