Rhaphidophora taiwana Shiraki, 1930

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Rhaphidophora taiwana Shiraki, 1930 . Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 20(111): 350; Karny, 1930. Orthoptera Fam. Gryllacrididae, Subfamiliae Omnes, 206: 242; Liu & Jin, 1993. Contributions to Shanghai Institute of Entomology, 11: 101; Jin & Xia, 1994. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 3: 18; Sugimoto & Ichikawa, 2003. Tettigonia, 5: 2.

Type specimen: syntype; type locality: Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan, China; location of type specimen: National Taipei University.

Material examined. No examined.

Distribution. China (Taiwan); Japan (Okinawa).

Discussion. The species differs from Rhaphidophora chopardi Karny, 1924 in: styli of male subgenital plate conical, apical area of ventral valvulae serrated; and differs from Rhaphidophora deusta Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888 in the shape of process of posterior margin for female subgential plate.