Mecopoda fallax He, 2019

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 : 303

Mecopoda fallax He, 2019

( Figs 1 f–j; 5b; 6b)

Mecopoda fallax He, 2019 . In Liu et al., Zootaxa 4585(3):571 (Holotype, male, origin. Descript.; type locality: China, China South-central, Yunnan, Mangshi; type depository: ECNU)

Examined material. China: Guangxi Province: 8 males, Nanning City, Daming Mountain , 2013.IX.28; 1 male, 1 female, Longzhou County, Nonggang, 2012.VII.; 12 males, 3 females , China: Hainan Province: Shuiman Township, Wuzhishan Mountain , 2014.X.16; 9 males, 3 females, Yunnan Province: Wenshan Prefecture, Malipo, 2014.XI.14.

Diagnosis. The species is distinguished from M. niponensis by the comparatively long wide tegmen (see measurements in Tables 5–6).

Bioacoustics. The species differs from M. niponensis by the much shorter period of a single song unit, and that three phases are made up of repeated simple syllables (see song parameters in Table 2). The species is widely distributed in South and southwestern China (only including Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan and Yunnan).

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).