Xingbaoia Rentz

Rentz, Dcf, Su, You Ning & Ueshima, Norihiro, 2012, Studies in Australian Tettigoniidae: New genera and species from North Queensland (Tettigoniidae; Conocephalinae; Armadillagraeciini trib. nov. and Agraeciini; Listroscelidinae; Requenini), Zootaxa 3173, pp. 1-36 : 32

Xingbaoia Rentz

Ginger katydids

Xingbaoia Rentz, 2001: 268 . Type species: Xingbaoia karakara Rentz , by monotypy. (Type locality: Lake Barrine, Atherton Tableland, Queensland.)

This genus was described to accommodate a single species from Australian tropical rainforests from Innisfail to Cape Tribulation, Queensland with populations in several disjunct rainforests on the Atherton Tableland, Qld.

Here we describe an additional species, from transitional areas bordering rainforests. It is smaller and more elongate than X. karakara and has different genitalia.

‘This species is readily placed in Xingbaoia based on its elongate, slender appearance and long legs and the micropterous condition of both sexes with the male tegmina almost wholly concealed by the pronotum. The colour of this species is brown with the dorsal surface of the abdomen of both sexes bearing a pair of parallel stripes laterally. The male cercus is characterised by having an internal crest ( Fig. 23 A, C).

Figures

FIGURE 23. Xingbaoia irvineorum Rentz, Su, Ueshima sp. nov. A, apex of male abdomen illustrating internal “ crest ” of each cercus. B, Stridulatory file of paratopotype male. C – E, right cercus, paratopotype male. C, dorsal, note crest. D, internal. E, lateral views.