Mecopoda himalaya, Liu & Heller & Wang & Yang & Wu & Liu & Zhang, 2020

Liu, Chun-Xiang, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Wang, Xue-Song, Yang, Zhen, Wu, Chao, Liu, Fei & Zhang, Tao, 2020, Taxonomy of a katydid genus Mecopoda Serville (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Mecopodinae) from East Asia, Zootaxa 4758 (2), pp. 296-310 : 304

Mecopoda himalaya sp. nov. Liu

( Figs 1 p–r; 5d; 6d)

Holotype. male, CHINA: Yunnan, Honghe City, Jinping County, Mengqiao Village , Mengping , 474m, 2013.VIII.21, CX LIU, K-G HELLER.

Paratypes. 1 male, CHINA: Yunnan, Honghe City, Jinping County, Surburb of Jinping County , 500m, 2013. VIII.17, CX LIU, K-G HELLER .

Diagnosis. M. himalaya is distinguished from the species in the species group niponensis by the low number of teeth and largest tooth density ( Figs 5d ; Table 5) and continuous song, which consists of repeated unchanged simple syllables ( Fig. 1 p–r). The species is only distributed in low altitudes of Yunnan Province in China.

Etymology. The species name indicates its locality and distribution area.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Calling songs of the species group niponensis. a–e: M. niponensis (Haan, 1843), f–j: M. fallax He, 2019, k–o: M. crescendo sp. nov., p–r: M. himalaya sp. nov.; s–u: M. marmorata He. Oscillogram of a song unit (a, f, k), the syllable groups in the beginning of a song unit (b, g, l), at the climax of a song unit (c, h, m), and at the end of a song unit (d, i, n); Oscillogram of unchanged continuous syllable groups (p), and neighboring syllable groups (q). The spectrum of the calling song (e, j, o, r, u).

FIGURE 5. Male stridulatory file under the left tegmen. a: M. niponensis (Haan, 1843); b: M. fallax He, 2019; c: M. crescendo sp. nov.; d: M. himalaya sp. nov.; f: M. tibetensis sp. nov.; f: M. marmorata He; g: M. confracta sp. nov.; h: M. synconfracta sp. nov.; i: Mecopoda_“S” (Sismondo 1990); j: Mecopda sp. from Vietnam; k: M. elongata elongata from India; l: M. minor minor subsp. nov.; m: M. m. yunnana subsp. nov..