Tapiena?incisa Karny, 1923

Tan, Ming Kai, Liu, Chunxiang, Ingrisch, Sigfrid, Japir, Razy & Chung, Arthur Y. C., 2024, An account on the Phaneropterinae (Tettigonioidea: Tettigoniidae) from the highlands of western Sabah, Zootaxa 5443 (4), pp. 451-494 : 481-482

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5443.4.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11064600
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scientific name	Tapiena?incisa Karny, 1923
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Tapiena?incisa Karny, 1923 View in CoL

( Figs 32 View FIGURE 32 , 33 View FIGURE 33 )

Tapiena incisa Karny, 1923: 141 View in CoL — Tan, Liu & Artchawakom, 2015: 42, 43 (key); Tan, Japir & Chung, 2019: 328 View Cited Treatment (see remarks below)

Material examined. EAST MALAYSIA: Sabah State • 1♂ 1♀; Mount Trus Madi, Trusmadi Entomology Camp; N5.44174, E116.45074, 1189.0± 5.2 m.a.s.l.; 31 October 2023, 19h58–20h23; attracted to light trap at ridge; coll. M.K. Tan, J.L. Yukang & A.Y.C. Chung; SBH.23.14, 28 ( FRC) GoogleMaps • 1♀; Mount Trus Madi , Trusmadi Entomology Camp ; N5.44307, E116.45155, 1192.0± 5.6 m.a.s.l.; 31 October 2023, 20h33–20h49; attracted to light trap near camp; coll. M.K. Tan, J.L. Yukang & A.Y.C. Chung; SBH.23.36 ( FRC) GoogleMaps

Remarks. Our specimen resembles most Tapiena incisa Karny, 1923 previously described from Sarawak, particularly by the shape of the male cercus ( Fig. 33C View FIGURE 33 ). However, our male specimen also differs in an important character: the male tenth abdominal tergite is truncated excised in the middle (and not triangularly excised) ( Fig. 33D View FIGURE 33 ). This species is also similar to Tapiena paraincisa Tan & Wahab, 2018 from Brunei Darussalam (not too far from Mount Trus Madi) by its stout body, red (or purple) fore femora and tympanal area ( Fig. 32 View FIGURE 32 ) and stridulatory areas on both tegmina ( Figs 33A, 33B View FIGURE 33 ), but also differs distinctly by the cercus at its apex broad and flattened (instead of tapering into two tooth-like processes) ( Fig. 33C View FIGURE 33 ), the tenth abdominal tergite being broadly and truncated and excised in middle (instead of narrowly excised) ( Fig. 33D View FIGURE 33 ) and the subgenital plate having much shorter apical lobes but longer styli ( Fig. 33E View FIGURE 33 ) (see also Tan & Wahab, 2018a).

Based on new material from Sabah, it appears that Tan et al. (2019) may have misidentified the Tapiena reported in Lungmanis (near Lahad Datu in Sabah).

Distribution. Borneo ( Sabah, Sarawak)

Type locality. EAST MALAYSIA: Sarawak: Baram River: Gunung Tamabo