Lopaphus balteatus Chen & He 2002
Creators: name: Ho, George Wai-Chun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Diapheromeridae
Lopaphus
Lopaphus balteatus

description: Lopaphus balteatus (Chen & He, 2002) T
Prosceles balteatus, Chen & He, 2002: 104 (in Chen et al., 2002), figs. 4a–b.
Type. Holotype: ♀, Jianfengling, Hainan, China, 21.V.1997, Li Wen-Zhu (IZCAS).
Distribution. Hainan (Jianfengling) and Hong Kong, China.
Notes. Chen and He (in Chen et al., 2002) erroneously placed this species in Prosceles Uvarov, 1940 [A junior synonym of Abrosoma Redtenbacher, 1906 placed in family Aschiphasmatidae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893]. Ho (2013g: 99) transferred it to Lopaphus Westwood, 1859 based on adult morphology and egg structure.
PLATE I. 1. Asceles diadema Redtenbacher, 1908, ♀, apex of abdomen, lateral view. [scale = 5 mm] 2. Asceles diadema Redtenbacher, 1908, ♀, apex of abdomen, dorsal view. [scale = 5 mm] 3. Asceles diadema Redtenbacher, 1908, ♂, apex of abdomen, lateral view. [scale = 5 mm] 4. Asceles diadema Redtenbacher, 1908, ♂, apex of abdomen, dorsal view. [scale = 5 mm] 5. Marmessoidea hainanensis hainanensis sp. nov. & subsp. nov., ♀, apex of abdomen, lateral view. [scale = 5 mm] 6. Marmessoidea hainanensis hainanensis sp. nov. & subsp. nov., ♀, apex of abdomen, dorsal view. [scale = 5 mm] 7. Marmessoidea hainanensis hainanensis sp. nov. & subsp. nov., ♂, apex of abdomen, lateral view. [scale = 5 mm] 8. Marmessoidea hainanensis hainanensis sp. nov. & subsp. nov., ♂, apex of abdomen, dorsal view. [scale = 5 mm] 9. Marmessoidea hainanensis hainanensis sp. nov. & subsp. nov., egg, dorsal view. [scale = 1 mm] 10. Marmessoidea hainanensis hainanensis sp. nov. & subsp. nov., egg, lateral view. [scale = 1 mm] 11. Pseudoparamenexenus yangi (Chen & He, 2002) gen. nov. & comb. nov., ♀, apex of abdomen, lateral view. [scale = 5 mm]
12. Pseudoparamenexenus yangi (Chen & He, 2002) gen. nov. & comb. nov., ♀, apex of abdomen, dorsal view. [scale = 5 mm]
13. Pseudoparamenexenus yangi (Chen & He, 2002) gen. nov. & comb. nov., ♂, apex of abdomen, lateral view. [scale = 5 mm]
14. Pseudoparamenexenus yangi (Chen & He, 2002) gen. nov. & comb. nov., ♂, apex of abdomen, dorsal view. [scale = 5 mm]
15. Pseudoparamenexenus yangi (Chen & He, 2002) gen. nov. & comb. nov., egg, dorsal view. [scale = 1 mm] 16. Pseudoparamenexenus yangi (Chen & He, 2002) gen. nov. & comb. nov., egg, lateral view. [scale = 1 mm]
PLATE II. 17. Asceles diadema Redtenbacher, 1908, ♀, habitus.
18. Asceles diadema Redtenbacher, 1908, ♂, habitus.
19. Marmessoidea hainanensis hainanensis sp. nov. & subsp. nov., ♀ (above) & ♂ (below), habitus. 20. Pseudoparamenexenus yangi (Chen & He, 2002) gen. nov. & comb. nov., ♂, habitus. 21. Pseudoparamenexenus yangi (Chen & He, 2002) gen. nov. & comb. nov., ♀, habitus.
description: Published as part of Ho, George Wai-Chun, 2016, Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea III: Catalogue of the phasmids of Hainan Island, China, with descriptions of one new genus, one new species and two new subspecies and proposals of three new combinations, pp. 314-340 in Zootaxa 4150 (3) on pages 316-318, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/258416