Conversifastigia gressitti, Liu, Chun-Xiang & Kang, Le, 2008

Liu, Chun-Xiang & Kang, Le, 2008, Two new genera with descriptions of three new species of Phaneropterinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from China, Zootaxa 1830, pp. 47-56 : 55-56

3. Conversifastigia gressitti sp. nov. (Figs. 9–11)

Holotype: female, CHINA: Kwangtung Province: Lung-tau shan Mt., Summit, 1200m, Kukong District, 8.vi.1947, Coll. Gressitt and Tslam ( IEAS).

Description: Female (holotype). Size moderate for typical phaneropterine insects. Pronotum: pronotal disc with distinct middle transverse groove V-shaped, lying in middle, also with an elongate middle line throughout; anterior margin slightly concave, posterior margin obtuse rounded (Fig. 11); lateral lobe of pronotum much as high as long, with anterior margin straight, posterior margin widely rounded, and ventral margin rounded (Fig. 10). Legs: Anterior femora armed with 6–7 spines on ventro-anterior margin; median femora with 8 spines on ventro-anterior margin; posterior femur with 14 anterior and 7–10 posterior ventral margins. Anterior tibiae with 4 anterior and 2 posterior anterior spine; median tibiae with 5 anterior and 11 posterior spines; posterior tibiae with 30 anterior and 20 posterior dorsal spines. Tegmen: radial vein also without another oblique branches after radial sector vein. Wings developed well. Tegmen extending beyond apex of hind femur, apex of tegmen rounded. Hind wing longer than tegmen. Tenth abdominal tergum with dorsal central surface slightly concave, apex wide truncated. Epiproct obtuse triangular. Ovipositor rather wide, of moderate length. Subgenital plate wide triangular, apex obtuse (Fig. 36).

Male unknown.

Color: Overall color brown. Compound eyes brown. Dorsal portion of each tegmen marked with a large ochreous transverse stripe.

Measurements of female (mm). Length of body: 24.0; length of pronotum: 5.5; width of pronotum: 3.6; length of tegmen: 33.5; largest width of tegmen: 11.0; length of hind wing: 37.0; length of anterior femur: 8.5; length of anterior tibiae: 10.0; length of mid femur: 10.8; length of mid tibiae: 12.5; length of posterior femur: 24.5; length of posterior tibiae: 28.5; length of ovipositor: 10.0; width of ovipositor: 3.5.

Etymology: The new species is named for one of the collectors, Dr J. Linsley Gressitt, former head of the Dept of Entomology, Bishop Museum, Honolulu who was born in China and made many studies of Chinese insects.

Discussion: The new species resembles species of Qinlingea Liu & Kang, 2007 in the shape and texture of tegmen, but differs from it and other species in the Phaneropterinae by the large head, the relative small compound eyes, the shape of fastigium frontis, the tegminal structure and details of female abdominal apex. Distribution: China: Guangdong Province.