Mecopoda niponensis niponensis ( Haan, 1843 )

Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Baker, Ed, Ingrisch, Sigfrid, Korsunovskaya, Olga, Liu, Chun-Xiang, Riede, Klaus & Warchałowska-Šliwa, Elżbieta, 2021, Bioacoustics and systematics of Mecopoda (and related forms) from South East Asia and adjacent areas (Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea, Mecopodinae) including some chromosome data, Zootaxa 5005 (2), pp. 101-144 : 114

Mecopoda niponensis niponensis ( Haan, 1843)

Lectotype male, here designated; labels (1) cotypus, (2) Museum Leiden, L. (Mecopoda) niponensis d. H., Det: de Haan (hand-written), (3) Museum Leiden, Mecopoda elongata L., det. C. de Jong, 1937. Stridulatory organs studied.

In the description of the species, de Haan (1843) obviously used a male and a female, probably both labeled as cotypes. We formally designate the male as lectotype although the female cotype seems to be lost. The stridulatory file has 116 teeth with the largest inter-tooth intervals between middle and anal third ( Fig. 11–12 ). M. marmorata Liu, 2019 ( Fig. 12 ) is similar to M. niponensis in file structure and basic pattern of the song ( Liu et al. 2020), but not in genetics ( Liu et al. 2019; Liu Cx in prep.).

Measurements (in mm): length of pronotum 7.1, tegmen length 39.1, tegmen width 15.4 (widest in the middle).

Figures

FIGURE 11. Stridulatory files in Mecopoda and Eumecopoda. A M. niponensis niponensis, lectotype, B M. niponensis vietnamica subsp. nov., holotype, C M. himalaya, CH3737 (Malaysia), D M. himalaya (=M. ampla malayensis, holotype), E M. himalaya (=M. ampla javaensis, holotype), F M. himalaya (=M. fallax aequatorialis, holotype), G M. macassariensis, holotype, H M. fallax, Thailand, I M. stridulata stridulata, CRTmeceloM02 (Borneo), J M. stridulata stridulata, holotype, K M. paucidens sp. nov., (Java), L M. sismondoi sp. nov., holotype, M M. javana, neotype, N M. javana, Sri Lanka, O M. mahindai sp. nov., holotype, P M. angusta, CH3697, Q M. dilatata, ORT 2005/413 (Borneo), R E. cyrtoscelis zhantievi subsp. nov., holotype, S M. prominens, holotype, T M. ampla ampla, holotype. Scale 1 mm.

FIGURE 12. Inter-tooth spacing in stridulatory files of Mecopoda species. Thick lines and filled symbols indicate specimens with known song. A–D: M. elongata group: A M. niponensis subgroup and M. marmorata, B M. himalaya and macassariensis, C M. fallax and species with similar files, D M. confracta subgroup, E other Mecopoda and Eumecopoda species.