Rhaphidophora minutispina Yu, Liu, Bian & Zhang, 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Yu, Tingting
name: Liu, Mingyu
name: Bian, Xun
name: Zhang, Bin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Dothideomycetes
Pleosporales
Leptosphaeriaceae
Rhaphidophora
Rhaphidophora minutispina

description: Rhaphidophora minutispina sp. nov.
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Figures 3–4
Description. Male. Body medium. Head. Head and pronotum as other species of the genus. Legs. Fore coxae with 1 spine; femora with 1 short ventral spine on internal margin; tibiae ventrally with 1 internal and 2 external spines, apices with 1 pair of spines on ventral surface. Middle femora with 1 pair of apical spines; tibiae dorsally with 2 pairs of spines, ventral surface with 1–3 pairs of spines, apices with 1 pair of spines on dorsal and ventral surfaces separately. Hind femora with 1 short internal spine (Fig. 3E); tibiae dorsally with 19–25 internal spines, 21–23 external spines, and 1 pair of small subapical spines, apices with 1 pair of dorsal spines and 2 pairs of ventral spines; basitarsi with 4–6 small spines and 1 apical spine on dorsal surface along the midline (Fig. 3F).
Abdomen. Posterior margin of tenth abdominal tergite faintly concave in middle. Dorsal surface of epiproct with obviously raised lateral margins, between them concave (Fig. 3H), and then prolonged into a pair of wide spines (Fig. 3G), the internal margin of the spine with 1 minute spine about the middle area (Fig. 3H); ventral surface of epiproct transverse, posterolateral area with 1 thin spine on each side, its apices directing forward and acute (Fig. 3I). Subgenital plate wider than long, lateral margins convex, posterior margin truncate; styli conical, about two times as long as subgenital plate, inserted on the posterolateral areas of the plate (Fig. 3K), apices subacute.
Female. Tenth abdominal tergite concave in middle (Fig. 4G). Epiproct roughly triangular, dorsal surface concave along middle, posterior margin rounded (Fig. 4G). Cerci slender. Seventh abdominal sternite longer than the preceding sternites. Subgenital plate semi-circular, separated by a prolonged membranous zone from the preceding sternite (Fig. 4I), posterior margin with 1 median concavity (Fig. 4J). Ovipositor about as long as hind femora, gradually upcurved behind the middle area (Fig. 4H).
Coloration. Male body blackish brown, dorsal surface of head almost black. Apices of femora darker.
Measurements (mm). BL: ♂ 17.4–17.8, ♀ 15.7–18.6; PL: ♂ 5.0–5.2, ♀ 5.1–5.7; FFL: ♂ 6.0–6.1, ♀ 5.7–7.7; MFL: ♂ 6.0–6.2, ♀ 6.0–6.2; HFL: ♂ 14.6–15.7, ♀ 14.7–16.0; HTL: ♂ 12.8–13.5, ♀ 12.8–13.5; HBL: ♂ 2.8–3.0, ♀ 2.4–3.0; OvL: 6.5–9.2.
Material examined. Holotype: male, Dulongjiang, Gongshan, Yunnan, August 20, 2024, coll. by Yangting Qin and Ting Luo. Paratypes: 2 females, Dulongjiang, Gongshan, Yunnan, August 21, 2024, coll. by Yangting Qin and Ting Luo; 1 male, Dulongjiang, Gongshan, Yunnan, August 23, 2024, coll. by Yangting Qin and Ting Luo; 1 male, Dulongjiang, Gongshan, Yunnan, August 25, 2024, coll. by Yangting Qin and Ting Luo. Other specimens: 1 male, Dulongjiang, Gongshan, Yunnan, August 11, 2024, coll. by Mingyu Liu; 1 male, Dulongjiang, Gongshan, Yunnan, August 19, 2024, coll. by Yangting Qin and Ting Luo; 6 males, Dulongjiang, Gongshan, Yunnan, August 20, 2024, coll. by Yangting Qin and Ting Luo; 5 males, Dulongjiang, Gongshan, Yunnan, August 21, 2024, coll. by Yangting Qin and Ting Luo; 1 male and 3 females, Dulongjiang, Gongshan, Yunnan, August 22, 2024, coll. by Yangting Qin and Ting Luo; 3 males and 1 female, Dulongjiang, Gongshan, Yunnan, August 23, 2024, coll. by Yangting Qin and Ting Luo; 3 males and 2 females, Dulongjiang, Gongshan, Yunnan, August 24, 2024, coll. by Yangting Qin and Ting Luo; 1 male and 1 female, Dulongjiang, Gongshan, Yunnan, August 25, 2024, coll. by Yangting Qin and Ting Luo.
Distribution. Yunnan (Gongshan).
Discussion. The new species differs from Rhaphidophora imbricofurca Shen, Wang & He, 2024 by the internal margin of male epiproct bearing a minuscule spine on the upper plate (Fig. 3G), and male subgenital plate with 1 pair of longer and subconical styli (Fig. 3K).
Etymology. The new name refers to the male epiproct with a pair of minuscule spines on internal margin of the upper plate.
description: Published as part of Yu, Tingting, Liu, Mingyu, Bian, Xun & Zhang, Bin, 2025, Description of two new species of Rhaphidophora (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Rhaphidophorinae) from Yunnan, China, pp. 394-400 in Zootaxa 5570 (2) on pages 397-399, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5570.2.11, http://zenodo.org/record/14734833