Tapiena yunnana Xia & Liu, 1989

Liu, Chun-Xiang & Kang, Le, 2010, The genus Tapiena Bolívar (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae; Holochlorini), with description of three new species from China, Zootaxa 2328, pp. 49-64 : 60

Tapiena yunnana Xia & Liu, 1989

( Figs. 2 a–b, 5b, g–i)

Tapiena yunnana Liu & Xia, 1996 ,Contr. Shanghai Inst. Entomol., 9: 156; (Holotype M, origi. descrip.; type locality: Yingjiang, Yunnan, China; type deposited in MSIE, Shanghai).

Material examined. 1 male (Holotype), China: Yunnan Prov.: Yingjiang, 1981. X.11, Coll. unknown ( MSIE).

Redescription. Male (holotype). Small-sized. Stridulatory file on underside of left tegmen with about 150 fine teeth ( Fig. 5b ). Tenth abdominal tergum strongly produced, with apical margin truncated in whole view; in dorsal view, basal quarter part with lateral margin convex and contract distad, remaining three fourths part extending backwards like a stick, and dorsal surface without any spines ( Fig. 5 h); in lateral view, lateral margin of basal quarter area strongly contracted, and then strongly enlarged distad, with sinuate apical margin ( Fig. 5 g). Cerci cylindrical, slightly curved, distal part suddenly contracted into an incurved obtuse hook ( Fig. 5 h). Subgenital plate with basal part wide, gradually narrowed, apical margin with a rather large obtuse triangular notch, as long as one third length of subgenital plate; styli slender, long, extending beyond apex of tenth abdominal tergum ( Fig. 5 i).

Female. Unknown.

Coloration. Yellowish green (maybe green at alive). Each lateral surface of anterior femur with a series of black spots on upper and middle areas, separately.

Measurements of male (mm). Length of body 22.5; length of pronotum 4.5; length of tegmen 32.0; largest width of tegmen 7.0; length of hind wing 36.5; length of posterior femur 16.5.

Distribution. China (Yunnan Prov.).

Figures

FIGURE 2. photograph of the genus Tapiena Bolívar. a, b, T. yunnana; c, d, T. hainanensis; e, f, T. stridulous sp. n.; g, T. bilobata Liu & Kang, sp. n.. a, c, e, g, photograph of male left stridulatory area; b, d, f, photograph of male right stridulatory area.

FIGURE 5. a, c – f, T. longzhouensis; b, g – i, T. yunnana. a, b, male stridulatory file on underside of left tegmen; c, g, male abdominal apex in lateral view; d, male tenth abdominal tergum in dorsal view; e, male cerci in dorsal view; f, i, male subgenital plate in ventral view; h, male abdominal apex in dorsal view.