Longchuanacris viridus Mao et Ou

Mao, Ben-Yong, Ren, Guo-Dong & Ou, Xiao-Hong, 2007, A taxonomic review of Longchuanacris Zheng et Fu (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Catantopinae), with descriptions of two new species from Yunnan, China, Zootaxa 1467, pp. 51-62 : 55-56

Longchuanacris viridus Mao et Ou , comb. nov., nomen nov.

( Figs 11–21 , 53–54 )

Caryanda macrofurcula Mao et Ou, 2000: 182 –184, figs 1–4.

Material examined

CHINA: Yunnan: 21 males and 12 females (paratypes, CLDU), Tengchong County, 25º0’ N, 98º30’ E, 1750m, 25 Jul. 1999, collected by Ben-yong Mao ( CLDU), Ji-shan Xu ( CLDU) and Zi-Zhong Yang ( CLDU). 3 males and 1 females (paratypes, CLDU), Baoshan, 25º6’ N, 99º6’ E, 1750m, 26 Jul. 1999, collected by Benyong Mao ( CLDU). 1 males (paratypes, CLDU), Dali, 25º30’ N, 100º18’ E, 1970m, 2 Aug. 1999, collected by Zi-Zhong Yang ( CLDU).

Description

Male ( Figs 11–21 ). The main morphological characters of the species are illustrated ( Figs 11–15 ), and the phallic complex is newly described here. Epiphallus with crescent outer lophi nearly projecting in a 90° angle from bridge and rounded inner lophi; anchorae with apex obtuse; anterior projections with posterior sides nearly straight in lateral view; lateral plate with external margin concave in dorsal view and posterior sides convex in lateral view; posterior projection somewhat stout and backward reaching at posterior margin of outer lophi in lateral view; bridge distinctly divided in middle (figs 16–18). Phallic complex illustrated (figs 19–21). Ectophallic membrane with an extra, spoon-shaped sclerite (fig. 20).

Remarks

Sharing the same generic characters with other four, especially on male furculae upright large and lophi crescent, the species is transferred to Longchuanacris from Caryanda . A new scientific name of L. viridus Mao et Ou is given for C. macrofurcula Mao et Ou, 2000 to avoid a junior homonym of type species L. macrofurculus Zheng et Fu, 1989 .

Distribution

China: Yunnan (Tengchong, Baoshan, Dali).

Figures

FIGURES 11 – 21. Longchuanacris viridus Mao et Ou. 11. male head and pronotum, dorsal view; 12. male mesosternum and metasternum; 13 – 14. male terminalia, dorsal and lateral views; 15. female subgenital plate, ventral view; 16 – 18. epiphallus, dorsal, anterior and lateral views; 19 – 21. phallic complex, anterior, lateral and dorsal views. Scale bars = 1 mm.

FIGURES 49 – 56. dorsal and lateral views of body. 49 – 50. Longchuanacris bidentatus; 51 – 52. Longchuanacris bilobatus, sp. nov.; 53 – 54. Longchuanacris viridus; 55 – 56. Longchuanacris curvifurculus, sp. nov..