Lipotactes (Lipotactes) digitatus (Karny, 1931)

Gorochov, A. V., 2021, Taxonomy of the katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from East Asia and adjacent islands. Communication 14, Far Eastern Entomologist 434, pp. 1-25 : 12-14

Lipotactes (Lipotactes) digitatus (Karny, 1931)

Fig. 16

MATERIAL. Indonesia: 1 ♂, Buton I. very near southeastern part of Sulawesi I.,

~ 40 km NNE of Baubau Town, Lambusango Reserve, 250–300 m, forest, 5º11ʹ43ʹʹS,

122º52ʹ35ʹʹE, 25–26.XI 2015, A. Gorochov, M. Berezin, I. Kamskov, E. Tkatsheva;

1 ♀, same country, southeastern part of Sulawesi I., ~ 30 km SE of Kendari City ,

environs of Moramo Waterfall, forest on hills, 4º13ʹ33ʹʹS, 122º44ʹ9ʹʹE, 29.IX.2015,

A. Gorochov, M. Berezin, I. Kamskov, E. Tkatsheva.

NOTE. This species was originally described from the central part of Sulawesi and inside the “genus” Mortoniellus (Karny, 1931) , but later it was transferred to

Lipotactes s. l. (Hebard, 1922) and returned back (Ingrisch, 1995). Here this species is included in the nominotypical subgenus of the genus Lipotactes and recorded from the southeastern part of Sulawesi and a nearest island, but it is useful to note that my males are intermediate between the types of L. (L.) concolor (from the south-

western part of Sulawesi) and L. (L.) digitatus ; however, the cercus of my males

( Fig. 16 ) has the proximedial hook less curved upwards than in the first species and subsp. n.; 42, 43 – L. (P.) h. lorelindu subsp. n.; 44, 45 – L. (P.) h. irisovi subsp. n.; 46 – L.

(Dialipotactes) maculatus Heb. ; 47, 48 – L. (Miolipotactes) minutissimus Gor. ; 49–51 – L.

(Sublipotactes) khmericus khmericus Gor. ; 52, 53 – L. (S.) kh. samkos Ingr. ; 54, 55 – L. (S.)

kh. saengeri Ingr. ; 56 – L. (S.) ingrischi Gor. ; 57, 58 – L. (Eulipotactes) azureus Gor. ; 59 – L.

(E.) orlovi Gor. ; 60 – L. (E.) proximus Gor. ; 61 – L. (E.) vietnamicus Gor. ; 62 – L. (E.)

sinicus (B.-Bien.); 63–65 – L. (Analipotactes) amicus Gor. Male abdominal apex with genital plate (41, 42, 44) and without it (46, 47) from above; distal part of male genital plate from above (43, 45, 50, 53, 55) and from below (64); male genitalia from above (48, 51, 56, 65);

proximedial lamella of male right cercus from above (49, 52, 54); male left cercus with some nearest structures (hind part of last tergite and epiproct) from above and without these structure from behind (57, 62); this cercus with hind part of last tergite from above (63); sclerites of male genitalia (58–61). [47–49, 51, 56–65–after Gorochov (1993, 1996, 1998, 2008),

modified.]

located more far from the dorsal tubercle than in the second species, and the posteromedian notch of the male genital plate is more similar to that of L. (L.)

digitatus. Thus, the types of L. (L.) concolor and L. (L.) digitatus as well as my specimens may belong to two or three subspecies of the same species.

Figures

Figs 1–25. Lipotactes spp., schematically: 1–3 – L. (Lipotactes) alienus lambir subsp. n.;