Formosatettix huapingensis Zheng & Jiang 1997
Creators: name: Deng, Wei-An
name: Luo, Jie-Ling
name: Huang, Chao-Mei
name: Lin, Li-Liang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tetrigidae
Formosatettix
Formosatettix huapingensis

description: 6. Formosatettix huapingensis Zheng & Jiang, 1997 (Figs. 8, 9, 24F, 24G, 24H)
Formosatettix huapingensis Zheng & Jiang, 1997b: 151 [description] (holotype — ♀, China: Guangxi prov., Longsheng County, Huaping, in IZSNU, examined; paratype —♁, same data, in IZSNU, examined); Jiang & Zheng, 1998: 348; Zheng, 2005: 364; Deng, Zheng & Wei. 2007b: 324; Deng, 2016: 281; Wei, Deng & Lu, 2019: 1008.
Formosatettix nanlingensis Zheng & Cao, 2011: 98 [description] (holotype — ♀, China: Guangdong prov., Ruyuan County, Nanling, in IZSNU, examined; paratype —♁, same data, in IZSNU, examined); Deng, 2016: 283; Wei, Deng & Lu, 2019: 1010; syn. nov.
Formosatettix undulatifemura, Zheng, 2012: 16 [description] (holotype —♁, China: Guangdong prov., Ruyuan County, Nanling, in IZSNU, examined); Deng, 2016: 280; Wei, Deng & Lu, 2019: 1007; syn. nov.
Formosatettix guposhanensis Deng, 2019 in Wei, Deng & Lu, 2019: 1016 [description] (holotype — ♀, China: Guangxi prov., Hezhou (Guposhan), in EMHU., examined; paratypes — 3♀, same data, in EMHU, examined); syn. nov.
Type material examined. Formosatettix huapingensis: holotype, ♀, China: Guangxi prov., Longsheng County, Huaping, 05 September 1962, in IZSNU; Paratype, 1♁, same data, in IZSNU. Formosatettix nanlingensis: holotype, ♀, China: Guangdong prov., Ruyuan County, Nanling, 24 August 2010, in IZSNU; paratype, 1♁, same data. Formosatettix undulatifemura: holotype, ♁, China: Guangdong prov., Ruyuan County, Nanling, 24 August 2010, in IZSNU. Formosatettix guposhanensis: holotype, ♀, China: Guangxi prov., Hezhou (Guposhan), 21 August 2017, in EMHU; paratypes, 3♀, same data, in EMHU.
Notes. We examined the type specimens of Formosatettix huapingensis, F. nanlingensis, and F. guposhanensis and found that the structures and coloration of the body are the same in these three taxa. Therefore, we consider F. nanlingensis and F. guposhanensis as synonyms of F. huapingensis. We also examined the type specimens of F. nanlingensis and F. undulatifemura and found that body structures, type locality (Nanling National Forest Park), and body coloration were the same in both taxa. The type specimen of F. undulatifemura was determined to be a nymph (antegenicular teeth of the dorsal margin before the knee of the hind femora were absent (Fig. 9A)). Thus, F. undulatifemura is considered to be a synonym of F. huapingensis. These taxa are conspecific and characterized by the width of the vertex between the eyes being 2.2–2.5 times the width of the compound eye; the anterior margin of pronotum is truncate or slightly arcuate protruding; the lower margin of the hind process is straight and the lateral carinae of metazoan is also slightly straight; the lower carinae of fore and mid femora is straight or slightly sinuate.
Distribution. China (Guangdong and Guangxi).
description: Published as part of Deng, Wei-An, Luo, Jie-Ling, Huang, Chao-Mei & Lin, Li-Liang, 2023, Review of the genus Formosatettix Tinkham (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with description of new taxa, new synonymy and an updated key to species, pp. 201-243 in Zootaxa 5228 (3) on pages 216-219, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5228.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7532348