Rhinoteratura pseudocapreola Gorochov, 2022

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 : 22-23

Rhinoteratura pseudocapreola Gorochov , sp. n.

https://zoobank.org/NomenclaturalActs/ 718AF146-0717-417F-821F-5B6C5D438A89

Figs 62–64 , 79, 80

MATERIAL. Holotype – ♀, Indonesia: Java I., “ Java or. [orientalis = eastern]” ( ZIN).

Paratype – 1 ♀, same island, “ Java ” ( ZIN) .

DESCRIPTION. Female (holotype). General appearance similar to that of females of Rh.

uniformis and Rh. ketambe sp. n., but coloration more uniformly greenish (with only light brown eyes, a pair of yellowish stripes along lateral edges of pronotal disc and without brown or light brown marks on tegmina), upper rostral tubercle with apex almost as in Rh.

uniformis ( Fig. 79 ), spine of fore coxa about 0.2 mm in length, tegmina reaching distal thirds of hind tibiae, hind wings with exposed apical parts about 1.5 mm in length, genital plate almost elongately oval but not long and with a pair of short lateral subtransverse folds in middle part ( Fig. 62 ), and ovipositor rather short (shorter than in these species; Fig. 80 ) and with apex as in Fig. 63 .

Variations. Paratype with upper rostral tubercle having narrowly truncate apex, and with ovipositor barely more curved upwards.

Male unknown.

MEASUREMENTS. Length (in mm). Body 10.5–11.5; body with wings 18.5–20; pronotum 2.9–3; tegmina 15–16; hind femora 7.5–7.8; ovipositor 4–4.3.

COMPARISON. The new species differs from Xiphidiopsis capreola Redtenbacher,

1891 (Java), erroneously included in the genus Leptoteratura (Gorochov, 1993) , in the head more opistognathous (vs. almost hypognathous), and in the female genital plate much shorter

(compare Figs 64 and 65 ). From another Javanese species, Rh. cemande (Gorochov, 2008) ,

c omb. n., Ph. pseudocapreola sp. n. differs in the female genital plate less widened in its proximal half and with a different ventral relief, as well as in the ovipositor shorter and with the higher proximal half (compare Figs 80 and 81 ); and from all other congeners, in the more uniform coloration in combination with the female genital plate shape and the ovipositor rather short as well as lacking denticles and apical hooks.

ETYMOLOGY. This species name consists of the Latinized Greek prefix “pseudo-” and the species name “ capreola ” due to the similarity of the new species with Rh. capreola

(Redtenbacher, 1891), comb. n. in their general appearance.

REMARKS. The holotype of Rh. pseudocapreola sp. n. is with the label “ Phlugiopsis g.

n. capreola Rdt. Bey-Bienko det. 1971” (probably Bey-Bienko intended to describe a new genus for this species but did not describe it) and was previously considered by Gorochov

(1993, 2008) as this Rebtenbacher’s species, but one of the syntypes of the latter species from the Geneve Natural History Museum (see its photograph in OSF) has the female genital plate very different from that of the above-mentioned holotype and is here designated as lectotype of Rh. capreola .

Figures

Figs 46–68. Meconematina: 46–49 – Xiphidiopsis (Xiphidiopsis) beybienkoi adjacens

Figs 69–88. Meconematina: 69–74 – Rhinoteratura uniformis (Gor.); 75, 76 – Rh. ketambe