Species group confracta Liu

Diagnosis. The species group “b” category has mediate-width long tegmina, comparatively short files (Fig. 5 g–k) and the narrowest mirror (Fig. 6 g–k). The file is widest in basal quarter, from which teeth are gradually narrower toward both ends (Fig. 5 g–k). The songs are discontinuous and each song unit consists of numerous simple syllables (Figs 2a, f, k).

Included taxa. Mecopoda confracta sp. n. (China), M. synconfracta sp. n. (China), Mecopoda _“S” (Figs 3 k–o, 5i, 6i; Malaysia) (Sismondo1990), Mecopoda sp. (Figs 5j, 6j; Vietnam), Mecopoda elongata elongata (Figs 5k, 6k; India), and Mecopoda _“N” (Bali) (Sismondo1990).