Xiphidiopsis, Redtenbacher, 1891

Gorochov, A. V., 2022, Taxonomy of the katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from East Asia and adjacent islands. Communication 15, Far Eastern Entomologist 459, pp. 1-26 : 18

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25221/fee.459.1
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Xiphidiopsis
status	sp. n.

Treatment

Xiphidiopsis View in CoL ? laosi Gorochov, sp. n.

https://zoobank.org/NomenclaturalActs/ 653E0E69-1737-4D25-870F-8655AB79DB38

Figs 54 View Figs 46–68 , 86 View Figs 69–88

MATERIAL. Holotype - ♀, Laos: Vientiane Prov., ~ 70 km NNW of Vientiane City ,

Nam Lik Eco Village on Nam Lik River, 18.61469ºN, 102.40847ºE, ~ 200 m, at light, 10–

30. VI.2017, A. Gorochov, M. Omelko ( ZIN) . Paratypes: 2 ♀, same data as for holotype

( ZIN).

DESCRIPTION. Female (holotype). General appearance more or less similar to X. (X.)

beybienkoi but with following characteristic features: body completely light greenish with only rose eyes and small light brown marks on tarsi and apex of ovipositor; upper rostral tubercle conical with narrowly rounded apex and rather short and very thin median groove on dorsal surface; ventral spines of fore and middle tibiae shorter (longest ones about 0.7 mm in length; vs. about 1 mm in length); spine of fore coxa about 0.4 mm in length; tegmina long,

reaching distal thirds of hind tibiae; exposed parts of hind wings, visible behind tegminal apices, almost 3.2 mm in length; cerci fusiform, moderately short (0.9 mm in length); genital plate low, with rather wide proximal half and moderately narrowed distal half having roundly truncate apex and clearly concave lateral edges ( Fig. 54 View Figs 46–68 ); ovipositor insignificantly curved upwards in distal third, without denticles, and with acute apices of upper valves and very small hook at apex of each lower valve ( Fig. 86 View Figs 69–88 ).

Variations. One of paratypes with indistinct groove on dorsum of upper rostral tubercle;

other paratype with a pair of more or less distinct yellowish longitudinal stripes on pronotal disc.

Male unknown.

MEASUREMENTS. Length (in mm). Body 9.5–11.5; body with wings 24–25.5; pronotum 3.7–3.9; tegmina 17.5–18.5; hind femora 10.5–11; ovipositor 7.6–7.9.

COMPARISON. The new species is most similar in the pronotal coloration to the genera

Decma Gorochov, 1993 and Chandozhinskia Gorochov, 1993 as well as in the shape of the female genital plate to the representatives of Xiphidiopsis s. str., but it differs from them in this plate short and distinctly narrowed in its distal portion but with the widely truncated apical part.

ETYMOLOGY. This species is named after the country where it was collected.