Parasinophasma Chen & He, 2008

Ho, George Wai-Chun, 2017, Contribution to the knowledge of Oriental Phasmatodea I: A taxonomic study of the genus Parasinophasma (Phasmatodea: Necrosciinae), Journal of Orthoptera Research 26 (2), pp. 181-194 : 181

Parasinophasma Chen & He, 2008

Euphasma = Chen & He, 2001 [Preoccupied by Euphasma Redtenbacher, 1906]

Subsequent literature.-

Chen et al. 2006: 98. Chen and He 2008: 152. Hennemann et al. 2008: 20. Ho 2015: 329, 2016: 322.

Type species.-

Micadina henanensis Bi & Wang, 1998: 12 (= Parasinophasma henanense ), by original designation.

Description.-

Body greenish or grayish brown; cylindrical, slender and elongate, unarmed. Female distinctly more robust and slender than male. Head oval or oblong, smooth. Vertex with three ocelli or lacking ocelli. Occiput distinctly or weakly convex. Antennae filiform and long. Thorax with granules of irregular sizes. Mesonotum slender and elongate. Abdomen cylindrical, usually smooth. Anal segment distinctly or weakly emarginated posteriorly. Supra-anal segment indistinct. Male ninth tergum elongate, longer than eighth tergum. Female gonapophyses rarely exposed. Cerci tapering posteriorly, straight or weakly curved in female; cerci tapering posteriorly, straight or distinctly curved in male, also with or lacking spine-like appendage. Male vomer small and almost symmetric, distinctly or weakly emarginated apically. Legs unarmed, slender and long. Tegmina oval. Alae maculated, shorter than or longer than mesonotum.

Distribution.-

China and Vietnam.

Notes.-

Currently 14 species and two subspecies are recognized. This genus is reported for the first time from Hong Kong.

Species included.-

1. Parasinophasma bouvieri (Redtenbacher, 1908: 553), comb. n. [Vietnam (Tonkin/North Vietnam)].

2. Parasinophasma bresseeli sp. n. [Vietnam (Vinh Phuc)].

3. Parasinophasma constanti sp. n. [Vietnam (Cao Bang and Lao Cai)].

4. Parasinophasma fanjingshanense Chen & He, in Chen et al. 2006: 98, fig. 8. [China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Chongqing)].

5. Parasinophasma guangdongense Chen & He, 2008: 154, fig. 122. [China (Guangdong)].

6. Parasinophasma hainanense Chen & He, 2008: 155, fig. 123. [China (Hainan)].

7. Parasinophasma henanense (Bi & Wang, 1998: 12, figs 7-8). [China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Zhejiang)].

8. Parasinophasma laifanae sp. n. [China (Hong Kong)].

9. Parasinophasma liui sp. n. [Vietnam (Thua Thien Hue)].

10.1. Parasinophasma luchunense luchunense sp. n. and subsp. n. [China (Yunnan)].

10.2. Parasinophasma luchunense xingyuei subsp. n. [Vietnam (Lao Cai)].

11. Parasinophasma maculatum Ho, 2015: 331, figs 1a, 2 a–b. [China (Yunnan)].

12. Parasinophasma sparsigranulatum sp. n. [Vietnam (Lam Dong)].

13. Parasinophasma tianmushanense Ho, 2015: 332, figs 1 b–g, 2 c–d, g. [China (Zhejiang)].

14. Parasinophasma unicolor Ho, 2015: 333, figs 2 e–f, 2 h–i. [China (Fujian)].

Key to males of Parasinophasma

Key to females of Parasinophasma