Borneratura kinabaluana (Bey-Bienko, 1971) Jin & Liu & Wang, 2020

Jin, Xingbao, Liu, Xianwei & Wang, Hanqiang, 2020, New taxa of the tribe Meconematini from South-Pacific and Indo-Malayan Regions (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Meconematinae), Zootaxa 4772 (1), pp. 1-53 : 38

54) Borneratura kinabaluana (Bey-Bienko, 1971, Xiphidiopsis ) comb. n.

1♀ (left leg lost): BRITISH N. BORNEO/ Mt. Kinabalu ,/ Tenompok , XI-2-’58; Faunula of Bamboo / Hut, lot #4/ T. C. Maa

? 1♂ (all legs lost, except right hind leg): NORTH BORNEO ( SE)/ Forest Camp / 9.8km SW of Tenom / 19.XII.1962; Y. Hirashima / Collector / BISHOP

Note. The female’s hind tibia with 2 pairs of apical spurs, pronotum with rather deep lateral lobe, humeral sinus indistinct, short subgenital plate with broad round and smooth posterior margin, ovipositor with apex strongly curved upwards, same as Xiphidiopsis kinabaluana Bey-Bienko, 1971 .

The male from same region bearing comparatively shallow lateral plate of pronotum, humeral sinus indistinct. The 10 th tergite without posteriomedian notch. Cerci bend inward in middle, with basal half thick and apical half thin. Subgenital plate short with smooth posterior margin, styli short. It may be better to consider the male as a separate species when more material in good condition are available.