Xiphidiopsis Redtenbacher, 1891

Han, Li, Di, Juan-Xia, Chang, Yan-Lin & Shi, Fu-Ming, 2015, Three new species of the genus Xiphidiopsis Redtenbacher, 1891 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) in China, Zootaxa 4018 (4), pp. 553-562 : 553

Genus Xiphidiopsis Redtenbacher, 1891

Xiphidiopsis Redtenbacher, 1891 . Ver. der Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, 41: 333; Tinkham, 1943. Notes d'Entomologie Chinoise, 10 (2), 40; Tinkham, 1944. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 94, 505; Tinkham, 1956. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc., 82, 1; Bey-Bienko, 1962. Trudy. Zool. Inst., Akad. Nauk SSSR, Leningrad, 30, 133; Bey-Bienko, 1971. Entomological Review, 50, 473; Gorochov, 1993. Zoosyst. Rossica, 2(1): 64; Kevan, & Jin, 1993. Tropical Zoology, 6, 253; Gorochov, 1998. Zoosyst. Rossica, 7 (1), 101; Gorochov, 2008. Proc. Zool. Inst.,Russian Acad. Sci., 312(1–2), 27.

Generic diagnosis. Body small. Head hypognathous; fastigium verticis conical, with a longitudinal sulcus dorsally; eyes globular, protruding forwards; maxillary palpi long, apical segment almost equal to subapical one, apex slightly widened. Pronotum short, humeral sinus comparatively shallow. Thoracic auditory spiracles completely exposed. Tegmina narrowly elongated, surpassing apices of postfemora, apices rounded; hind wings a little longer than tegmina. Male tenth abdominal tergite with an unpaired process on the middle of posterior margin; cerci complicated, with processes; epiproct very small. Male genitalia entirely or almost entirely membranous. Subgenital plate of female various; cerci rather short; ovipositor rather long, moderately curved upwards, with small hooks on apices of ventral valvulae.