Tamdaotettix Gorochov, 1998

Qin, Yanyan, Wang, Hanqiang & Li, Kai, 2019, A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS TAMDAOTETTIX (ORTHOPTERA: RHAPHIDOPHORIDAE) FROM YUNNAN WITH A KEY TO CHINESE SPECIES, Far Eastern Entomologist 387, pp. 1-6 : 2-3

Genus Tamdaotettix Gorochov, 1998

Tamdaotettix Gorochov, 1998: 81 ; Storozhenko & Dawwrueng, 2014: 289; Gorochov &

Storozhenko, 2015: 52; Qin et al., 2016: 339; Zhu et al., 2018: 294; Gorochov & Storozhenko,

2019: 151.

Type species: Tamdaotettix dilutus Gorochov, 1998 , by original designation.

DIAGNOSIS. Body is smaller than in majority of the other genera of Diestramimini . Pronotum with dorsal edge arcuate and convex. Male posteromedian process of 7th abdominal tergite rather short; posteromedian process of 6th abdominal often angular or spine-like. Male paraproct simple. Male genitalia consists of six rather simple and completely membranous lobes (three dorsal and three ventral lobes; the ventrolateral lobes not very long and undivided). Female paraproct simple; upper valve of ovipositor with distinct dorsal notch near apex or without it. Tamdaotettix is most similar to the genus Mimadiestra Storozhenko et Dawwrueng, 2014 but differs from the latter in characters given in a key (Gorochov & Storozhenko, 2015).

COMPOSITION. There are 17 species known from Laos, Vietnam and South

China. Up to now five species has been recorded from Yunnan, Guizhou and

Guangxi provinces of China. One new species is described in present paper. A key to six Chinese species is given below.