Sinochlora dulongensis Wu & Liu, 2024

Wu, Chao & Liu, Chun-Xiang, 2024, Studies on the genus Sinochlora Tinkham, 1945 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae), I. Establishment of species groups and description of three new species, Zootaxa 5512 (1), pp. 22-34 : 25-26

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5512.1.2

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13848691

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Sinochlora dulongensis Wu & Liu
status

sp. nov.

Sinochlora dulongensis Wu & Liu sp. nov. üx华ūdz

( Figs. 2A View FIGURE 2 ; 3A, B View FIGURE 3 ; 6B View FIGURE 6 ; 7 View FIGURE 7 )

Type Material. Holotype. ♂, China: Yunnan Province, Dulongjiang Township, Maku Village , Qin’lang’dang (üDz ±), N 27.6887° E 98.2775°, 1248m, 2.IX.2023, Chao Wu leg. ( IZCAS) GoogleMaps . Paratypes. 5♂, same data, 2–9.IX.2023, Chun-Xiang Liu & Chao Wu leg. ( IZCAS) GoogleMaps .

Description.

Male. Body large-sized for the genus. Large spines on all femora blackish-brown, surface at base of the spines without black spots. ( Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 , 6B View FIGURE 6 )

Tenth abdominal tergum short, slightly wider than longer; central process prolonged, large, posterior margin incised in middle, hairy; both lateral processes robust, strongly inclined downwards, with black blunt tip. ( Fig. 3A View FIGURE 3 ) Epiproct large, laterally compressed, approximately trapezoid, dorsally concave ventrad, with numerous black bristles on ventral surface; distal process very long, straight upward-sloping, black, glossy, with backward-bending fishtail-shaped tip divided into two lobes ( Fig. 3A View FIGURE 3 ) Cerci long, but shorter than epiproct. Subgenital plate broad at base and then abruptly constricted, deeply divided; apical lobes narrow, longer than half of its length, strongly upcurved in lateral view; inner margin of base with black spots. ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 )

Female. Unknown.

IZCAS

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tettigoniidae

Genus

Sinochlora

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