Neophaloria He, 2019

Chen, Guang-Yu, Xu, Yue, Liao, Wang & He, Zhu-Qing, 2019, A new genus with one new species of Phaloriinae from western Yunnan, China (Orthoptera: Phalangopsidae: Phaloriinae), Zootaxa 4565 (3), pp. 443-446 : 445

Genus Neophaloria He gen. nov.

Type species: Neophaloria dianxiensis He , here designated

Included species: type species only

Typical appearance of this subfamily. Body flat, form “lute-like” ( Fig. 2 B–D). Head small with obvious frontal rostrum, first joint of antennae large, as wide as frontal rostrum; pronotum transverse, little wide in posterior margin, forewing large with mirror. Male genitalia ( Fig. 3 ): ovoid, length:width=1.69, sclerotization weak; rachi (=guiding rod) large and translucent, longer than epiphallus, little widened and bifurcated at apical part; epiphallic lateral lobes highly sclerotized, thin and long but not over rachi, the apical part upwards and inwards curved under rachi; ectoparameres with two highly sclerotized short lobes, lobes also under rachi and inwards curved; rami fused with each other in anterior part of genitalia. This new genus differs from Trellius in its short epiphallic lateral lobes and large rachi, and differs from genus Vescelia in its short ectoparameres.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Neophaloria dianxiensis in living condition. A, nymph (from Nabang); B, male (from Nabang); C, male (from Moli); D, female (from Moli).

FIGURE 3. Male genitalia of Neophaloria dianxiensis. A, in dorsal view; B, in ventral view; C, in lateral view.