Sinophasma jinxiuense Chen & He, 2008

Ho, George Wai-Chun, 2012, Notes on the genera Sinophasma Günther, 1940 and Pachyscia Redtenbacher, 1908 (Phasmatodea: Diapheromeridae: Necrosciinae), with the description of four new species from China, Zootaxa 3495, pp. 57-72 : 66-67

Sinophasma jinxiuense Chen & He, 2008

Sinophasma jinxiuense, Chen & He, 2008: 134 , 402, figs. 98 a–c.

Type-material. Holotype 3, Dayaoshan, Jinxiu, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China, 13.VI.1982, Li Fashen (CAU, not traced), assessed by Chen & He’s figures.

= Sinophasma rosarum Chen & He, 2008: 136 , 403, figs. 100 a–b. [Holotype Ƥ, 900–1900 m., Shengtangshan, Jinxiu, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China, 29.VI.2000, Li Wenzhu (IZCAS, not traced), assessed by Chen & He’s figures.] syn nov.

Other material examined. 23, Shengtangshan, Jinxiu, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China, 27.VII.2011, Hu Jiayao (SNU); 23, 1Ƥ, Lianhuashan, Jinxiu, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China, 30.VII.2011, Hu Jiayao & Peng Zhong (SNU).

Diagnosis. Medium Sinophasma . It is characterized by the clavate lateral angles of the anal segment and deeply concave hind margin of the poculum in male and small praeopercular organ on seventh sternum in female.

Notes. S. rosarum Chen & He, 2008 is shown to represent the previously unknown female of S. jinxiuense Chen & He, 2008 and hence is here synonymised with the latter.

Distribution. Guangxi (Jinxiu), China.