Xizicus (Zangxizicus) Wang, Jing, Liu, Li, 2014

Wang, Hanqiang, Jing, Jun, Liu, Xianwei & Li, Kai, 2014, Revision on genus Xizicus Gorochov (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Meconematinae, Meconematini) with description of three new species form China, Zootaxa 3861 (4), pp. 301-316 : 309

Xizicus (Zangxizicus) Wang, Jing, Liu, Li , subgen. nov.

Type species: Xizicus (Zangxizicus) quadrifascipes Wang, Jing, Liu, Li , sp. nov., here designated.

Body dark brown with blackish stripe, disc of vertex with 4 dark longitudinal bands, tegmina variegated conspicuous dark spots, hind femora with four dark latitudinal bands. Male metazona longer than prozona, no process at hind margin of 10 th abdominal tergite, styli degenerated to small tubercles or disappeared.

Etymology. The subgeneric name is derived from the district name of distribution ‘Xizang’ and generic name ‘Xizicus’.

Diagnosis. Unlike nominate subgenus, species of this new subgenus without process at hind margin of male 10 th abdominal tergite.