Grigoriora cheni ( Bey-Bienko, 1955 ) Wang & Liu, 2018

Wang, Hanqiang & Liu, Xianwei, 2018, Studies in Chinese Tettigoniidae: Recent discoveries of Meconematinae katydids from Xizang, China (Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), Zootaxa 4441 (2), pp. 225-244 : 227-228

Grigoriora cheni ( Bey-Bienko, 1955) comb. nov.

( Figs. 8–10 )

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Xiphidiopsis cheni: Bey-Bienko, 1955 , Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 34:1261; Beier, 1966, Orthopterorum Catalogus, 9:274; Liu & Jin, 1994, Contributions from Shanghai Institute of Entomology, 11:110; Jin & Xia, 1994, Journal of Orthoptera Research,

3:27; Liu & Jin, 1999, Fauna of Insects Fujian Province of China. Ƒol. 1.:159; Liu, 2007, The Fauna Orthopteroidea of Henan:480.

Xiphidiopsis zhejiangensis: Zheng & Shi, 1995 , Insects and macrofungi of Gutianshan, Zhejiang: 31.

Eoxizicus cheni: Liu & Zhang, 2000 , Entomotaxonomia, 22(3):159.

Eoxizicus (Eoxizicus) cheni: Liu, Zhou & Bi, 2010 , Insects of Fengyangshan National Nature Reserve, 82.

Diagnosis and discussion: The description of this species was precise. Bey-Bienko (1955) treated it a Xiphidiopsis . Gorochov (1993, 1998) did not include this species in his revisionary work on the tribe Meconematini . Liu (with Zhang, 2000) transferred it to Eoxizicus . In the present view, this species is more generally similar to Xiphidiopsis spp. owing to its uniform body colour, the genital segments ( Fig. 8 ) similar to Eoxizicus . However, the pronotal stripes are absent, and genitalia of male bear a conical tubercle ( Fig. 10 ) different from that of Eoxizicus species. This new combination seems to reconcile the conflict. The male genitalia of this species are not strongly sclerotized dorsally and the male subgenital plate is convex and not bifurcated apically ( Fig. 9 ). Considering Grigoriora contains very different species possibly belonging to different subgenera, we believe this combination is justified.

Type locality and preservation: Kuling town, Jiujiang city, Jiangxi province ; type specimens are kept in IZCAS.

Material examined: 2♂♂ 3♀♀, Hot spring, Mount Huang, Anhui province, 1983. IX.1, leg. BI Dao-Ying, HE Xiu-Song & HE Jin-Chuan; 2♀♀, Sangang village, Mount Wuyi, Fujian province, 1994. VIII.27 ~ IX.3, leg. YIN Hai-Sheng & JIN Xing-Bao; 10♂♂ 11♀♀, Mount Tiantong, Ningbo city, Zhejiang province, 2010. VII.18 ~20, leg. LIU Xian-Wei, QIU Zhong-Liang & GAO Chao.

Distribution: China (Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong).

Figures

FIGURES 8–10. Grigoriora cheni (Bey-Bienko, 1955) comb. nov.. End of male abdomen: 8. dorsal vieW; 10. ventral vieW With genitalia. 9. female subgenital plate in ventral vieW.