Phlugiolopsis minuta ( Tinkham, 1943 )

Bian, Xun, Shi, Fu-Ming & Chang, Yan-Lin, 2012, Review of the genus Phlugiolopsis Zeuner, 1940 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from China, Zootaxa 3281, pp. 1-21 : 6-8

3. Phlugiolopsis minuta ( Tinkham, 1943)

(Map. 1, Figs. 3 , 12 : G–H)

Xiphidiopsis minutus Tinkham, 1943: 40 , 42; Tinkham, 1944: 508; Tinkham, 1956: 5.

Phlugiolopsis minutus Yamasaki, 1986: 357 .

Phlugiolopsis minuta Jin & Xia, 1994: 26 ; Liu & Jin, 1994: 109; Liu & Zhang, 2001: 96; Shi & Ou, 2005: 358. Phlugiolopsis fallax Xia & Liu, 1993: 110 ; Liu & Jin, 1994: 109; Jin & Xia, 1994: 26 (synonymized by Liu & Zhang, 2001: 96).

Type specimen: female; type locality: Guling (Lushan), Jiangxi, China; location of type specimen: Shanghai Entomological Museum of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Redescription. Male. Subgenital plate longer than wide, basal half slightly broad, narrowing, basal margin excavate, posterior margin angularly rounded. In some specimens, posterior margin obtusely rounded. Subapex of subgenital plate with conical styli on ventral margin, apices obtuse.

Female. Cerci conical, stout, apices acute, sometimes apical half spine-shaped. Ovipositor short, base stout, narrowing, dorsal valvulae slightly longer than ventral ones; dorsal valvulae sharply pointed and ventral ones with a small dinstinct or indistinct terminal hook.

Material examined. 2 females, Jinxiu, Guangxi, 17 August 2000, collected Chao-Ming Wei; 6 males and 1 female, Dayaoshan, Jinxiu, Guangxi, 25 September 2011, collected by Xun Bian; 1 male and 3 females, Huangsha, Lingui, Guangxi, 13 August 2006, collected by Shao-Li Mao and Li-Juan Wang; 1 male and 1 female, Huangsha, Lingui, Guangxi, 28 Semptember 2011, collected by Xun Bian; 1 female, Anjiangping, Longsheng, Guangxi, 21 September 2011, Chao Gao and Ji-Liang Wang; 9 males and 8 females, Maoʹershan, Xingʹan, Guangxi, 19 Semptember 2011, collected by Xun Bian; 1 male and 1 female, Maoʹershan, Xingʹan, Guangxi, 21 Semptember 2011, collected by Xun Bian; 1 female, Hengshan, Hunan, 8 September 2003, collected by Jian-Hua Huang; 1 male and 2 females, Hengshan, Hunan, 29 August 2007, collected by Jian-Hua Huang.

Distribution. China (Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang).

Figures

FIGURE 3. Phlugiolopsis minuta (Tinkham, 1943). A – F. male: A. pronotum in dorsal view; B. apex of abdomen in dorsal view; C. left cercus in dorsal view; D. left cercus in ventral view; E. subgenital plate in ventral view (from Huangsha, Lingui, Guangxi); F. subgenital plate in ventral view (from Maoˏershan, Xingˏan, Guangxi); G – K. female: G: apex of abdomen in lateral view (from Huangsha, Lingui, Guangxi); H. apex of ovipositor in lateral view (from Huangsha, Lingui, Guangxi); I. apex of abdomen in lateral view (from Maoˏershan, Xingˏan, Guangxi); J. apex of ovipositor in lateral view (from Maoˏershan, Xingˏan, Guangxi); K. subgenital plate in ventral view.

FIGURE 12. Habitus lateral view of Phugiolopsis spp. A, C, E, G, I. male; B, D, F, H, J. female: A – B. P. brevis Xia & Liu, 1993; C – D. P. grahami (Tinkham, 1944); E – F. P. tuberculata Xia & Liu, 1993; G – H. P. minuta (Tinkham, 1943); I – J. P. y u n - nanensis Shi & Ou, 2005.