Phryganogryllacris decempunctata Liu, Bi & Zhang 2010
Creators: name: Li, Miao-Miao
name: Fang, Yan
name: Liu, Xian-Wei
name: Li, Kai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Haglidae
Phryganogryllacris
Phryganogryllacris decempunctata

description: 3.8 Phryganogryllacris decempunctata Liu, Bi & Zhang, 2010 (Figs 20–24)
Phryganogryllacris decempunctata Liu, Bi & Zhang, 2010. In: Xu (ed.), Insects of Fengyangshan National Nature Reserve: 60, figs 5a–d.
Male. Body medium sized. Fastigium of vertex about 2 times as broad as scape; eyes long-ovate, prominent. Fore margin of pronotum slightly roundly projected, hind margin straight. Tegmina rather extending beyond the apex of hind femora, R with 4 branches, Rs occurred after the middle of R, with 5 branches; M simple, its basal section united with R, CuA with 3 branches, between the first and the second branches with an oblique connecting with the M, A with 4, the last of them united at base. Wings slightly extending beyond tegmen. Hind femora on ventral surface with 2–4 external spines and 4–5 internal spines; hind tibiae on dorsal surface with 6–7 rows of external spines and 7 rows of internal spines. 9 th abdominal tergite roundly convex, each side with a hook-like process directed internally. Cerci rather long; posterior margin of subgenital plate deeply split into two rounded lobes; styli short and slightly flattened (Figs 22–23).
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Female. R of tegmina with 4 branches, Rs occurred from the middle of R, not bifurcate. Subgenital plate semicircular, posterior margin with a broad incision (Fig. 24). Ovipositor longer than hind femora, straight, with slightly sharp apex.
Coloration. Body pale yellowish brown. Occiput blackish brown, with a rounded pale broadly macula behind head, eyes blackish brown, with darkish longitudinal stripes behind them, ocelli yellow; face with 10 paired blackish spots (Fig. 20); the black stripes of pronotum looks like butterfly (Fig. 21). Venation brownish yellow, but venation of male more pale. Basal section of all tibiae with a darkish brown transversal band, ventral and lateral of fore and mid femora darkish black, each sides with a darkish black spots or short stripe; apex of hind femora almost darkish black on ventral and lateral surface, basal half with rows of darkish black spots. Spurs of fore and mid legs, spines of hind legs darkish black. Each side of abdominal tergites darkish brown; basal half of female abdominal tergite darkish brown.
Measurement. Body, ♂ 18.5 mm, ♀ 19.0 mm; pronotum, ♂ 4.0 mm, ♀ 4.5 mm; tegmina, ♂ 24.0 mm, ♀ 24.5 mm; hind femora, ♂ 11.5 mm, ♀ 12.0 mm; ovipositor, ♀ 16.0 mm.
Material examined. 1♂, 1♀, Zhejiang, Qingyuan, Baishanzu, 12–28 July 1996, Xin-Bao Jin and Wei-Nian Zhang legs.; 1♂, Zhejiang, Qingyuan, Baishanzu (elev. 1 000 m), 26–30 June 2005, Wen-Xuan Bi leg.; 1♂, Zhejiang, Qingyuan, Baishanzu (elev. 1 100 m), 2–5 September 2006, Xian-Wei Liu leg.; 1♀, Zhejiang, Qingyuan, Baishanzu (elev. 1 000 m), 20–23 July 2007, Zhi-Zhou Xu leg.; 1♂, 1♀, Zhejiang, Longquan, Fengyang Mountain (elev. 1 400 m), 27 July 2007, Qiang Fu leg.; 1♀, Fujian, Wuyi Mountain, Tongmu (elev. 600 m), 10–12 July 2010, Xian-Wei Liu leg.
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Distribution. Zhejiang, Fujian.
description: Published as part of Li, Miao-Miao, Fang, Yan, Liu, Xian-Wei & Li, Kai, 2014, Taxonomic revision of the genus Phryganogryllacris (Orthoptera: Gryllacrididae) from China, pp. 507-519 in Zoological Systematics 39 (4) on pages 513-515, DOI: 10.11865/zs.20140404, http://zenodo.org/record/4617426