Mecopoda niponensis continentalis Gorochov, 2020

Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Baker, Ed, Ingrisch, Sigfrid, Korsunovskaya, Olga, Liu, Chun-Xiang, Riede, Klaus & Warchałowska-Šliwa, Elżbieta, 2021, Bioacoustics and systematics of Mecopoda (and related forms) from South East Asia and adjacent areas (Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea, Mecopodinae) including some chromosome data, Zootaxa 5005 (2), pp. 101-144 : 115

Mecopoda niponensis continentalis Gorochov, 2020

Recording; male CH7674, CHINA: Yunnan, Honghe, Dai Yao Jinping Miao , Maandi (22°52’N, 103°13’E), 1900 m, 20 viii 2013, leg. Liu Chun-Xiang (song, stridulatory organs, chromosomes) .

Other material (stridulatory files studied): 13 males, CHINA, Fukien (= Fujian), Kuatun (2300m) 27.40ºN, 117.40ºE, 11–15 ix 1938, leg. J. Klapperich; 1 male, CHINA, Fukien (= Fujian), Kwangtseh, 17 viii 1937, leg, J.Klapperich ( ORT2002 _1833-9, 1845, 1849–50, 1984; ZFMK) .

For comparison with M. n. vietnamica subsp. nov., we present an oscillogram of the song of the subspecies continentalis from China ( Fig. 7 ). For the stridulatory file, see M. n. vietnamica subsp. nov. below.

Chromosomes: 2n = 27, FN = 54; pairs 1, 2 and 5–13 metacentric, 3 and 4 subacrocentric, X chromosome metacentric ( Fig. 15 ).

Figures

FIGURE 7. Oscillograms of the calling songs of species of the Mecopoda niponensis subgroup. Details (1 s sections). In M. himalaya synchronous registration of movement of left tegmen and sound (upper line: upward deflection indicating opening, downward closing; lower line: sound).

FIGURE 15. C-banded karyotypes (left side) and mitotic metaphase (right side) of five Mecopoda species with different chromosome number (2n). Karyotypes are reconstructed by arranging homologous chromosomes in order of decreasing size. X, sex chromosome.