Liara (Liara) guangxiensis Bian & Zhang & Li 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Bian, Xun
name: Zhang, Qianwen
name: Li, Shan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Liara
Liara guangxiensis

description: Liara (Liara) guangxiensis sp. nov.
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Figures 5–6, 7D–F, 8A–B.
Description. Male. Body stout. Frons punctured. Fastigium verticis conical in dorsal view (Fig. 5A), ventral surface with indistinct median carinula (Fig. 5B).
Pronotum rugose, anterior margin arched, posterior margin rounded, transverse sulcus broadly interrupted in middle (Fig. 5B); the lateral lobes longer than high, anterior angle broadly rounded, posterior angle obtusely rounded, humeral sinus faintly exposed (Fig. 5C). Prosternum smooth; mesosternal lobes nearly triangular, the internal margins straight, the external margins convex, then terminating into apex, subapical areas concreted, the apical areas spine-shaped; metasternal lobes with 1 pair of small spines, the external margins obtusely rounded; intermedial plate with a small conical process at posterior angle on each side (Fig. 5D).
Fore coxae with 1 small spine; fore femora with 3–5 internal spines on ventral surfaces, tibiae ventrally with 8 internal spines, 6–7 external spines and 1 pair of apical spurs. Middle femora with 5–8 external spines on ventral surfaces; tibiae ventrally with 1–2 internal and 8–9 external spines, apices with 1 ventral spurs. Hind legs absent.
Tegmina reaching the middle area of fifth abdominal tergite, apices obtusely rounded and partly overlapped; hind wings shorter than the tegmina.
Tenth abdominal tergite projecting backwards, posterior margin rounded with arched concave in middle (Fig. 6B). Epiproct triangularly rounded with shallow medial furrow. Paraprocts with 1 pair of short compressed processes. Cerci stout, terminating into apex; the internal margins of apices with 1 small spine which directing inward (Fig. 6B), the interno-ventral margins with 1 compressed long branch (Fig. 6D), which apices with 1 small spine and 1 dorsal lobe (Fig. 6F), dichotomous in apical view (Fig. 6F). Titillators with basal areas weakly sclerotized, arcuately curved, directing laterad (Fig. 7D); middle areas widened ventrally with 1 digitiform process (Fig. 7F); apical areas depressed and straight, with subapical areas slightly widened, rounded, denticulate (Fig. 7D–E). Subgenital plate longer than wide, lateral margins curved dorsad and narrowing to apex, ventral surface with 1 pair of lateral carinae, posterior margin with 1 shallowly V-shaped concavity; styli small, inserted at apico-lateral angles of subgenital plate (Fig. 5G).
Female. Unknown.
Coloration. Body yellowish brown. Face with green longitudinal band (Fig. 8A, C). Eyes, the margins of the antennal cavities, and the basal areas of the first and second antennal segments black (Fig. 5A). Clypeal suture with 1 circular black spot in middle (Fig. 5A, E). Basal areas of mandibles black. Pronotal disc darker (Fig. 5D). Basal and apical areas of fore tibiae black (Fig. 5C). Tegmina with dark cells. Abdominal sternites reddish purple.
Measurements (mm). Male: BL 28.1, PL 10.2, HFL absent, TL 11.7.
Material examined. Holotype: male, Pinglongshan, Fangchenggang, Guangxi, August 21, 2022, coll. by Qianwen Zhang and Shan Li.
Distribution. Guangxi (Fangchenggang).
Discussion. The new species differs from Liara (Liara) tamdaoensis in the shape of titillators of male phallus.
Etymology. Named after the type locality.
description: Published as part of Bian, Xun, Zhang, Qianwen & Li, Shan, 2022, First report of the genus Liara (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae Agraeciini) from Guangxi, China with description of two new species, pp. 171-178 in Zootaxa 5195 (2) on pages 175-176, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5195.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/7184761