Notes on the genera Sinophasma Günther, 1940 and Pachyscia Redtenbacher, 1908 (Phasmatodea: Diapheromeridae: Necrosciinae), with the description of four new species from China
Author
Ho, George Wai-Chun
text
Zootaxa
2012
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journal article
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Pachyscia longicauda
(
Bi, 1990
)
comb. nov.
Sinophasma longicauda
,
Bi, 1990
: 151
, figs. 1–3. Chen & He, 1992: 44, fig. 126. [Female description and illustration]
Bi, Chen & He, 1992
: 67
.
Chen, 1993: 87, figs. 1–3.
Wang, Chen & He, 1995
: 66. [First record from Guangxi]
Hua, 2000
: 31.
Otte & Brock, 2005
: 315.
Xu, 2006: 61, fig. 4. [Egg illustration]
Hennemann, Conle & Zhang, 2008
: 37.
Asceles longicauda
,
Chen & He, 1996
: 41
. Chen &
Wang, 1998
: 16.
Chen, He & Xu, 2006
: 94.
Chen & He, 2008
: 118, figs. 83 a–e.
Type-material.
Holotype
3, Suoxiyu,
Cili
, Hunan Province,
China
,
31.VIII.1988
, Liu Xianwei (SEM);
Paratype
3, Zhangjiajie, Dayong, Hunan Province,
China
,
28.IX.1986
, Liu Xianwei (SEM), examined.
Other material examined.
3, 520–
560 m
.
, Fanjingshan, Guizhou Province,
China
,
14.VII.1988
,
Yuan
Decheng (
IZCAS
); 3, 500–
950 m
.
, Fanjingshan, Guizhou Province,
China
,
3.VIII.2001
, Zhao Fang (
CAU
); Ƥ, Zhangjiajie, Dayong, Hunan Province,
China
,
16.VII.2005
, Li & Zhao (SNU); 23, 882–
950 m
.
,
16 km
., Jinxiu, Guangxi Autonomous Region,
China
,
29.VII.2011
, Peng Zhong (SNU); 3, Gaozhai, Xing’an, Guangxi Autonomous Region,
China
,
24.VII.2012
, Ho, G.W.C. (GH).
Diagnosis.
This species is readily distinguished from all other
Pachyscia
species by tuberculate mesonotum in male and posteriorly narrowing anal segment in female.
Notes.
Bi (1990)
originally placed this species in
Sinophasma
Günther, 1940
.
Chen and He (1996: 41)
later transferred this species to
Asceles
Redtenbacher, 1908
based on
Asceles quadriguttatus
Chen & He, 1996
[=
Pachyscia quadriguttata
]. Actually, the elongate and posteriorly notched anal segment in male and subapically lobed mesofemora in female shows the characters of the genus
Pachyscia
and therefore here transferred. First description and illustration of female was provided by Chen and He (1992: 44).
Distribution.
Hunan (Suoxiyu and Zhangjiajie), Guizhou (Fanjingshan) and Guangxi (Longsheng, Jinxiu and Xing’an),
China
.