Symplocodes manubria Feng et Guo, 1990

Zheng, Yuhong, Wang, Chenchen, Che, Yanli & Wang, Zongqing, 2015, The species of Symplocodes Hebard (Blattodea: Ectobiidae: Blattellinae) with description of a new species from China, Journal of Natural History 50, pp. 339-361 : 341-344

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scientific name	Symplocodes manubria Feng et Guo, 1990
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Symplocodes manubria Feng et Guo, 1990 View in CoL

( Figures 1A, B View Figure 1 , 2A – L View Figure 2 , 8D – F View Figure 8 )

Symplocodes manubria Feng et Guo, 1990: 340 View in CoL .

Materials examined

One male (holotype), China, Yunnan Prov ., Xishuangbanna , Meng ’ a, 1050 – 1080 m, 6 August 1958, coll . FJ Pu; two males (paratypes), same data as above; one male, China, Yunnan Prov ., Simao , 29 May 1986, coll . PZ Feng; one male, China, Yunnan Prov . , Xishuangbanna , Dadugang, 11 August 2009, coll. ZQ Wang; one male, China, Yunnan Prov . , Simao , 1500 m, 30 – 31 October 2007, coll. WW Zhang; one male, China, Yunnan Prov . , Yingjiang , Tongbiguan, 1287 m, 2 June 2008, coll. WW Zhang; one male, China, Yunnan Prov . , Xishuangbanna , Mt Kongmingshan, 2100 m, 20 September 1957, coll . SY Wang . ( SWU)

Redescription

Female unknown.

Length, male (holotype in parentheses), overall length including tegmen: 13.6 – 15.2 (15.2)mm; pronotum length × width: 2.9 – 3.5 (3.4)mm × 3.8 – 4.2 (4.2)mm; tegmen length: 11.9 – 12.5 (12.5)mm.

Body medium, yellowish brown ( Figure 1A View Figure 1 ). Vertex yellowish brown, some individuals with irregular brown maculae (holotype without maculae). Face reddish brown, with one round reddish brown spot near antennal socket ( Figure 2A View Figure 2 ). Ocellar spot yellowish white. Antennae blackish brown with base yellowish brown ( Figure 1B View Figure 1 ). Fifth maxillary palpomere blackish brown with apex yellowish white, the others yellowish brown ( Figure 1B View Figure 1 ). Pronotum yellowish brown, with two distinct reddish brown V-shaped maculae near hind margin; each lateral corner with one curved blackish brown stripe ( Figures 1A View Figure 1 , 2D View Figure 2 ). Tegmina yellowish brown, hind wings hyaline. First through ninth abdominal terga blackish brown; sterna yellowish brown and first through seventh segment ’ s lateral borders with black irregular maculae ( Figure 1B View Figure 1 ).

Vertex with interocular space less than the distance between antennal sockets ( Figure 2A View Figure 2 ). Third and fifth maxillary palpomeres approximately same length, and both weakly longer than the fourth ( Figure 2B View Figure 2 ). Pronotum subelliptical, widest behind the middle ( Figure 2D View Figure 2 ). Both tegmina and hind wings fully developed, extending beyond end of abdomen ( Figure 1A View Figure 1 ). Tegmen with six or seven (holotype with seven) anterior rami of radius ( ANT. R. RAMI) and nine to twelve (holotype with nine) apical rami of radius ( AP. RAMI), one or two (holotype with two) apical rami with branches; median (M) and cubitus (CU) veins longitudinal, with complex branches ( Figure 2E View Figure 2 ) . Hind wing with one anterior ramus of radius, R1 without branch; median and cubitus veins weakly curved, the former simple and cubitus vein with one complete branch after the middle, incomplete branch absent ( Figure 2F View Figure 2 ) . Front femur Type A3 ( Figure 2C View Figure 2 ), pulvilli on four proximal tarsomeres. Tarsal claws symmetrical, distinctly dentate ( Figure 8D – F View Figure 8 ). Seventh abdominal tergum specialized with the centre hyaline and with a scattered cluster of minute setae ( Figure 2G View Figure 2 ).

Supra-anal plate ( Figure 2H View Figure 2 ) symmetrical in ventral view, hind margin slightly concave in the middle, posterior region scattered with six spines; right and left intercercal processes dissimilar, apex acute, left process slender with a spine-like process near the middle, pointing to the right; right process more or less short with apex branched. Left posterolateral corner of subgenital plate ( Figure 2I View Figure 2 ) without obvious process, but with incision; right posterolateral corner with process perpendicular to subgenital plate; hind margin produced in the middle and bearing a conical stylus; left posterolateral margin with a large, long process (as indicated in Figure 2I View Figure 2 ) pointing to the left and somewhat upwards, whose outer margin has a row of setae; the dorsal surface of subgenital plate with one complex sclerite in centre, whose hind margin is setose; left stylus absent. Genitalia with L3 ( Figure 2J View Figure 2 ) very small, without pre-apical incision; L2vm ( Figure 2K View Figure 2 ) slender and apically tapering, with filamentous branch near apical third; R2 ( Figure 2L View Figure 2 ) with a curved sclerite, R3 ( Figure 2L View Figure 2 ) with two obvious sclerites, one of which is rod-like, the other is discoidal.

Remarks

This species is similar to S. marmorata marmorata ( Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893) , but can be distinguished in the following characteristics. First, for the former, subgenital plate with a long process pointing to the left, while in the latter, the process is short. Second, intercercal processes of the former dissimilar, the right process slender with a large “ spine ”, the left one shorter with apex branched; but in the latter, symmetrical and broad, strongly curved and each with a large dark spine. Third, paraprocts of the former without spines, while in the latter, several spines are present.

Distribution

China (Yunnan).