Bannatettix ruiliensis Zheng, 1993

Zhang, Rong-Jiao, Deng, Wei-An, Li, Jie-Juan & Lin, Li-Liang, 2022, Pygmy grasshoppers of the genus Xistra Bolívar, 1887 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae: Metrodorinae), Zootaxa 5162 (2), pp. 183-197 : 193-194

3. Bannatettix ruiliensis Zheng, 1993

Bannatettix ruiliensis Zheng, 1993: 48 [description] (holotype — ♀, China: Yunnan prov., Ruili County, in IZSNU, examined); Zheng & Jiang, 1997: 154; Liang & Zheng, 1998: 224; Zheng, 2005b: 429; Deng, Zheng & Wei, 2007a: 384; Zheng, Mao & Xu, 2010: 4; Deng, Zheng & Wei, 2012: 2377 ; Deng, 2016: 314.

Xistra klinnema Zheng & Zeng, 2011: 1899 [description] (holotype — ♀, China: Yunnan prov., Ruili County, Mengxiu, in IZSNU, examined); Li, Deng, Zheng, Lin & Lu, 2014: 213; Deng, 2016: 118; syn. nov.

Type material examined. Bannatettix ruiliensis : holotype, ♀, China: Yunnan prov., Ruili County, 12 August 1985, in IZSNU ( Fig. 6a ). Xistra klinnema : holotype, ♀, China: Yunnan prov., Ruili County, Mengxiu , 08 August 2005, in IZSNU ( Fig. 6b ) .

Notes. Xistra klinnema is not a Xistra species because posterior angles of lateral lobes turned downwards, apex of posterior angles obtuse rounded. It belongs to Bannatettix Zheng, 1993 . We have examined the type specimens of Bannatettix ruiliensis and Xistra klinnema , and found that structures, type locality and coloration of the body are the same in both taxa. Therefore, Xistra klinnema is here considered a synonym of of Bannatettix ruiliensis .

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FIGURE 6A–F. The holotype of Bannatettix ruiliensis (Zheng, 1993), Xistra klinnema (Zheng & Zeng, 2011), Systolederus emeiensis (Zheng, 1998), Xistra yaanensis (Zheng, 2009), Systolederus guangxiensis (Zheng, 1998), Xistra longzhouensis (Zheng & Jiang, 1998). A—Bannatettix ruiliensis (female); B—Xistra klinnema (female); C—Systolederus emeiensis (female); D—Xistra yaanensis (male); E—Systolederus guangxiensis (male); F—Xistra longzhouensis (male). (A–F photo: Weian Deng).