Micadina Redtenbacher 1908
Creators: name: Ho, George Wai-Chun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Diapheromeridae
Micadina

description: Genus Micadina Redtenbacher, 1908
Type-species. Marmessoidea phluctaenoides, Rehn, 1904: 73, by subsequent designation of Shiraki, 1935: 71.
Description. Small to medium-sized. Green species. Body cylindrical. Head smooth and oval. Mesonotum usually densely granulated. Abdomen smooth. Seventh sternum rarely with praeopercular organ in female. Female subgenital plate short, scoop-shaped, gonapophyses exposed. Male poculum cup-shaped. Anal segment with small emargination on posterior margin. Supra-anal plate usually distinct in female. Cerci long and cylindrical, straight in female, curved inwards or straight in male, apices usually rounded in both sexes, rarely bifurcated or broadened posteriorly in male. Legs unarmed and slender. Tegmina small and oval. Alae short, anal region pale white in female, rose in male. Egg capsule bucket-shaped, webbed. Micropylar plate oblong.
Distribution. China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Chongqing, Hong Kong and Shanghai), Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
Notes. Currently 15 species are recognised from this Palearctic and Oriental genus and all of them are known from China (Chen & He, 2008; Hennemann et al., 2008a; Ichikawa & Okada, 2008; Ho, 2012a & 2013b; Ichikawa, 2014).
Species included from China:
1. Micadina bilobata Liu & Cai, 1994: 87, figs. 2: 1–4. Distribution. China (Zhejiang).
2. Micadina brachyptera Liu & Cai, 1994: 87, figs. 1 & 2: 9–10. Distribution. China (Guizhou).
3. Micadina brevioperculina Bi, in Bi et al., 1992: 67, figs. 2: 1–2. Distribution. China (Guizhou and Hubei).
4. Micadina cheni Ho, 2012a: 178, figs. 1a–c & 2a–b. Distribution. China (Guangdong).
5. Micadina conifera Chen & He, 1997b: 119, figs. 10a–c. = Micadina fagi Ichikawa & Okada, 2008: 18, figs. 2, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, 18, 23–24 & 27–28. [Synonymised by
Ichikawa, 2014: 16]
Distribution. China (Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi and Chongqing) and Japan.
6. Micadina difficilis Günther, 1940: 237.
Distribution. China (Fujian).
7. Micadina fujianensis Liu & Cai, 1994: 88, figs. 2: 5–8. Distribution. China (Fujian).
8. Micadina involuta Günther, 1940: 238, figs. a & h. Distribution. China (Fujian).
9. Micadina phluctainoides (Rehn, 1904: 73). [Marmessoidea] = Micadina phluctaenoides Redtenbacher, 1908: 533. [Misspelling] = Micadina phlyctaenoides Kirby, 1904: 438. [Misspelling] = Micadina rotundata Shiraki, 1935: 72, figs. 2–3, pl. 8: 12–14 & pl. 10: 1–2. [Synonymised by Otte & Brock,
2005: 203]
Distribution. China (Shanghai), Korea and Japan.
10. Micadina reni Ho, 2013b: 245, figs. 1–3.
Distribution. China (Anhui).
11. Micadina sonani Shiraki, 1935: 75, pl. 9: 1–3.
Distribution. China (Fujian).
12. Micadina songxiaobini sp. nov.
Distribution. China (Guangxi).
13. Micadina yasumatsui Shiraki, 1935: 74, figs. 4–5 & pl. 8: 15–16. = Micadina yasumatui Suzuki, 2010: 7. [Misspelling] Distribution. China (Fujian) and Japan.
14. Micadina yingdeensis Chen & He, 1992: 207: figs. 1–4. Distribution. China (Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi and Hong Kong).
15. Micadina zhejiangensis Chen & He, 1995: 64, figs. 4–5. Distribution. China (Zhejiang).
description: Published as part of Ho, George Wai-Chun, 2017, Contribution to the knowledge of Chinese Phasmatodea V: New taxa and new nomenclatures of the subfamilies Necrosciinae (Diapheromeridae) and Lonchodinae (Phasmatidae) from the Phasmatodea of China, pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 4368 (1) on pages 8-9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4368.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1125305