Pseudophoraspis recurvata Wang et al., 2013

Wang, Zhenzhen, Zhao, Qiongyao, Li, Weijun, Che, Yanli & Wang, Zongqing, 2018, Establishment of a new genus, Brephallus Wang et al., gen. nov. (Blattodea, Blaberidae, Epilamprinae) based on two species from Pseudophoraspis, with details of polymorphism in species of Pseudophoraspis, ZooKeys 785, pp. 117-131 : 117

Pseudophoraspis recurvata Wang et al., 2013 Figures 2 G–J, 4A, 4F, 5 A–B

Note.

Wang et al. (2013) described the male of P. recurvata including detailed information on male genital structures (Figures 2 G–H, 4A, 4F, 5B). The description of the female is provided here.

Material examined.

China: Hainan: five males and one female, Baoting County, 2013.V.2, coll. Yan Shi and Shun-Hua Gui; three males, Changjiang County, Qicha Township, 2015.IV.28, coll. Lu Qiu and Qi-Kun Bai; one male and two females, Sanya City, Liupan Village, 2015.IV.8, coll. Lu Qiu and Qi-Kun Bai; two males (holotype and paratype), Baoting County, 1959.VII.10, coll. Yi-Chuan Hu. China: Guangxi: one male (paratype), Mt. Daqingshan, 1958.IX, coll. Yi-Xin Xu.

Female description.

(Figures 2 I–J, 5A). Body brownish-yellow. Vertex, eyes and between the antennal sockets black-brown. Ocellar spots pale yellowish. Antennae, legs, thorax and abdomen brown. Maxillary palp with 1 st– 2nd segments pale yellowish and 3 rd– 5th segments brown. Cerci brown with apical segment yellow.

Head longer than wide. Interocular space slightly less wide than interocellar space, ocellar spots rather small, eyes elongate. Antennae short, not reaching to half length of body, first segment of flagellum twice length of next segment; interantennal portion of frons concave. Frons moderately punctuated; clypeus and labrum unmarked. Pronotum covering vertex of head, anterior margin arcuate, posterior margin truncate, with scattered punctuation and a pair of impressions on disc. Thoracic and abdominal tergites with small tubercles and longitudinal inflations along posterior margins. Tegmina reduced to lateral scales, with nearly indistinct venation, veins reduced, wings absent. Anterior margin of fore femur type B, with six large spines and one single apical spine. Tibial spines well developed. 3 rd– 7th abdominal tergites with paired rounded impressions. Hind metatarsus with spines along most of its length, equal to remaining joints, tarsal spines absent. Tarsal claws symmetrical, simple, arolia very small. Supra-anal plate transverse, beyond the subgenital plate, hind margin with a medial V-shaped excavation. Hypandrium widely rounded, caudal margin arcuate. Cerci abbreviated, apex blunt.

Variation.

Morphology of paratypes is same as female type described above, but with following variation: five to six large spines scattered along anterior margin of fore femora; color of clypeus, labrum and abdomen tergites brown or yellow. Overall length: 20.1 ± 0.2 mm; head length × width: 3.6 ± 0.1 mm × 2.9 ± 0.1 mm; pronotum length × width: 6.2 ± 0.1 mm × 10.7 ± 0.1 mm.

Known geographic range.

China (Hainan, Guangxi).