Xizicus (Paraxizicus) biprocerus ( Shi & Zheng, 1996 )

Feng, Jiyuan, Chang, Yanlin & Shi, Fuming, 2016, A revision of the subgenus Xizicus (Paraxizicus) Liu, 2004 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), Zootaxa 4138 (3), pp. 570-576 : 574-575

Xizicus (Paraxizicus) biprocerus ( Shi & Zheng, 1996)

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Xiphidiopsis biprocera Shi & Zheng, 1996 . Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 32 (3), 332; Liu & Jin, 1999. In: Huang, B.K. (Ed.). Fauna of Insects in Fujian Province of China. Vol. 1, 155.

Xizicus (Paraxizicus) biprocerus Liu, 2004 . In: Yang, X.K. (Ed.). Insects from Mt. Shiwandashan Area of Guangxi, 100.

Material examined. 1♂, Wuyishan, Fujian, China, 20 August, 2003, collected by Ming Bai; 1♀, Jiulianshan, Longnan, Jiangxi, China, 23 July, 2008, collected by Fu-Ming Shi and Ming Qiu; 1♂ 1♀, Wuyishan, Qianshan, Jiangxi, China, 2 August, 2008, collected by Ming Qiu; 1♂ 1♀, Tianmushan, Lin’an, Zhejiang, China, 2 August, 2011, collected by Li-Ying Guo; 1♂, Shunxiwu, Qingliangfeng, Zhejiang, China, 4 August, 2012, collected by Guang-Lin Xie and Xin Wang; 1♂ 1♀, Tianmushan, Lin’an, Zhejiang, China, 15 September, 2012, collected by Yuan-Yuan Lu; 1♂ 1♀, Shunxiwu, Qingliangfeng, Zhejiang, China, 18 September, 2012, collected by Rong-Sheng Lu. The material examined is deposited in the Museum of Hebei University.

Redescription. Female. The base of subgenital plate slightly concave, basal and apical areas equally wide, posterior area of subgenital plate with a rectangular notch.

Distribution. China (Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian).

MAP 1. Distribution of the subgenus Paraxizicus .

Figures

FIGURE 3. Xizicus (Paraxizicus) biprocerus (Shi & Zheng, 1996): male: a. head and pronotum in dorsal view; b – c. apex of abdomen: b. lateral view; c. dorsal view; d. apices of cerci in apico-ventral view; e. pronotum in lateral view; f – g. subgenital plate: f. lateral view; g. ventral view; female: h. ovipositor in lateral view; i. apex of ovipositor in lateral view; i. subgenital plate in ventral view.