Pedopodisma kuocangshanensis, Xie & Pan & Yang & Bai, 2024

Xie, Xuanyi, Pan, Luojia, Yang, Yilei & Bai, Yi, 2024, A new species of the genus Pedopodisma (Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Catantopidae) from Zhejiang Province, China, Zootaxa 5555 (1), pp. 143-146 : 143-145

Pedopodisma kuocangshanensis sp. nov.

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Type material. Holotype ♂ , allotype ♀ , Paratypes 3 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀ ， 10August 2023, Mount Kuocang (300m; 121.04°E, 28.69°N) Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, China, collected by Xie Xuan-Yi and Bai Yi .

Male. Body medium in size. Head shorter than pronotum. Front oblique. Frons slightly oblique in profile. Longitudinal grooves between eyes. Eyes large, ovoid nearly, prominent, vertical diameter 1.25 times horizontal diameter and 1.8 times length of subocular groove. Antennae slender, reaching the base of hind femur, length of segment in the middle of antennae is about 3 times of width. Anterior and posterior margins of pronotum flat, triangular notch in the middle of posterior margin, median keel evident, lacking in lateral keel. Median keel cut by posterior sulcus. Length of prozona about 2.1 times that of the metazona. Slightly coarsely punctate prozona, densely punctate in the metazona. Length of mesonotum 1.96 times about its width. Mesonotum and metanotum irregularly punctate.Length of lateral lobe of pronotum longer than height, posterior margin straight, anterior corner of lower margin rounded, posterior corner obtusely angulate. Lateral lobe of pronotum smooth in the prozona, with small incised dots in the metazona. Prosternal spine conical. Length of mesosternal lobes about 1.6–1.7 times the minimum width. Lateral lobes of metasternum separate. Tegmina small, measuring less than or just reaching the posterior margin of the mesonotum, apex slightly pointed. Wings absent. Upper keel of hind femur smooth, genicular lobe rounded at the end, the length of femur about 3.65 times the maximum width. Hind tibiae with 8–10 spines on the outer and 9–10 on the inner side.Arolium of tarsus very large, surpassing the apex of claws. Tympanal organ well developed. Tympanic cavity circular nearl. Cercus conical, laterally compressed, base broad, tip rounded. Epiproct triangular, concaved in the middle, flanked by 2 protuberances. Subgenital plate short, conical, apex rounded. Epiphallus bridge-shaped, upper margin flatter, lower margin deeply concave centrally. Ancorae of epiphallus pointed, lower than anterior projection. Bluntly rounded at the front of the lophi, small and cuspidal at the back end.

Female. Body medium in size, stronger than male. Head shorter than pronotum. The center of the top of the head is slightly convex. Front oblique. Eyes large, ovoid nearly, prominent. Longitudinal grooves between eyes. eye distance is 0.8mm. Vertical diameter is 1.57 times horizontal diameter, and 1.87 times length of subocular groove. Frons slightly oblique in profile with longitudinal groove. Antennae slender, reaching the base of hind femur, length of a segment in the middle of antennae is about 3 times of width. Anterior and posterior margins of pronotum straight. Length of prozona about 2.2 times that of the metazona. Length of mesonotum 2.3 times about its width. Tegmina small, slightly pointed, measuring less than or just reaching the hind margin of the mesonotum. Hind tibiae with 10-11 spines on the outer and 10-11 on the inner side. The length of hind tibia about 4.4 times the maximum width. Arolium of tarsus very large, surpassing the apex of claws. Cercus conical, tip rounded, not reach the apex of the epiproct. Epiproct triangular, length is almost equal to the widest part of the base. Subgenital plate, wide, long, reach the trailing edge of upper ovipositor valves. The center of the posterior margin is triangular and prominent. Upper ovipositor valves having dull fine teeth.

Body color: Body yellowish green or yellowish brown. Antennae brown. Postocular band black.In males, it extends to the fourth abdominal segment, while in females, it only extends to the second abdominal segment. Pronotum brown. Lower half of lateral lobe of pronotum yellow green. Tegmina brown. Fore and middle legs yellowish green. Hind femur yellowwish green, knee black. Hind tibia light blue-green, base black, tip of tibia black. Tarsi blue-green.

Length of body: ♂ 21.5–22.0 mm; ♀ 24.5–29.5 mm.

Length of pronotum: ♂ 4.9–5.1 mm; ♀ 5.5–6.0 mm.

Length of elytra: ♂ 1.58–1.65 mm, ♀ 1.14–1.8 mm.

Length of hind femora: ♂ 13.5–14.0 mm; ♀ 15.5–16.0 mm.

The new species is allied to Pedopodisma protrocula Zheng, 1980 , it differs from the latter in Table 1 .

Figures

FIGURES 1–8. Pedopodisma kuocangshansis sp. nov. 1. Body dorsal view ♂; 2 Body lateral view ♂; 3. End of abdomen dorsal view ♂; 4, Tegmina ♂; 5. End of abdomen lateral view♂; 6. Epiphallus; 7. Body.dorsal view ♀; 8. Ovipositor valves. 9–10. Pedopodisma protrocula Zheng, 1980 9. End of abdomen lateral view ♂; 10. Epiphallus. 9–10 figs after Li, et al 2006.