Sorineuchora bimaculata, Li, Meng, Che, Yan-Li, Zheng, Yu-Hong & Wang, Zong-Qing, 2017

Li, Meng, Che, Yan-Li, Zheng, Yu-Hong & Wang, Zong-Qing, 2017, The cockroach genus Sorineuchora Caudell, 1927 from China (Blattodea, Ectobiidae, Pseudophyllodromiinae), ZooKeys 697, pp. 133-156 : 141-143

Sorineuchora bimaculata sp. n. Figs 7, 12 C–D

Type material.

Holotype male (IESWU), China, Guizhou, Luodian, June 1981, unknown leg. Paratypes (deposited in IESWU). 1 male, Guizhou, Maolan, Xiaoqikong, 30 May 1998, Qiong-Zhang Song leg.; 1 male, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Meng’a, 1050-1080m, 20 June 1958, Shu-Yong Wang leg.; 1 male, Chongqing, Wulong, Wanfeng, 800m, 7 July 1989, Long-Long Yang leg.; 1 male, Hubei, Luotian, Mt. Dabieshan, 01-02 July 2014, Yan Shi and Xin-Ran Li (= Conlin McCat) leg.

Diagnosis.

Upper half of vertex brown, with two round yellowish brown spots in the middle (Fig. 7C); a pair of styli have three to six small spines at the apex and inner margins; L2vm the middle inflated, pre-apex curved and apex acute, R3 arched and filament, the apex inflated (Fig. 7J). Using these traits, the new species can be distinguished from its congeneric species.

Description.

Measurements (mm). Holotype, body length without cerci: 7.6, overall length including tegmen: 8.8; pronotum length × width: 1.9 × 2.7; tegmen length: 7.4. Paratypes, body length without cerci: 7.0-7.8; overall length including tegmen: 9.0-11.0; pronotum length × width: 1.75 × 2.8; tegmen length: 8.0-9.0.

Male. Body small, dark brown. Upper half of vertex brown, with two round yellowish brown spots in the middle (Fig. 7C), lower half reddish brown, with a black transverse stripe. Frons brown to yellowish brown and without a stripe (Fig. 7A), or with a bent light brown stripe (Fig. 7B). Pronotum yellowish brown without stripes, or brown with a longitudinal light brown stripe, lateral margins hyaline. Tegmen reddish brown. Abdomen brown, lateral and hind margins light. Legs yellowish brown, the coxa brown.

Interocular space as wide as, or wider than, the distance between ocelli, and narrower than the distance between antennal sockets. Fifth segment of maxillary palpus longer than the fourth. Pronotum subelliptical, posterior margin truncate. Tegmina and wings fully developed extending beyond end of abdomen, the former with oblique CuA. Hind-wing R with oblique branches, M without branch, CuA with one branch, apical triangle evident. Front femur Type C2, pulvilli on four proximal tarsomeres, tarsal claws asymmetrical, arolia present. Abdominal terga unspecialized.

Supra-anal plate short and symmetrical, paraprocts similar and sheet-like (Fig. 7G). Subgenital plate with subsymmetrical hind margin, a pair of styli which have three to six small spines at the apex and inner margins, situated almost in the middle of hind margin, the interstylar margin slightly concave (Fig. 7H). L1 consisting of several irregular seta-free sclerites (Fig. 7I); middle of L2vm inflated, pre-apex curved and apex acute; R3 arched and filament, the apex inflated (Fig. 7J); hooked phallomere (R2) on the right side, with a preapical incision.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution.

China (Guizhou; Yunnan; Hubei; Chongqing).

Etymology.

Latin word bimaculata refers to the two round yellowish brown spots on vertex.

Remarks.

See remarks under the S. bivitta .