Thanmoia reticulipennis ( Li & Jin, 1984 ), 2025

Thanmoia reticulipennis ( Li & Jin, 1984) comb. nov.

Figs 3A–R View Fig , 4L–Q View Fig , 5 View Fig

Paratoacris reticulipennis Li & Jin, 1984: 198 View in CoL , 203.

Paratoacris reticulipennis View in CoL – Zheng 1993: 75. — Otte 1995: 326. — Jiang & Zheng 1998: 81. — Li & Xia 2006: 53.

Type material

Holotype

CHINA • ♂; Dayao Mountains , Jinxiu County, Guangxi Province; 17 Sep. 1981; Tianshan Li leg.; 14523515; SEM.

Paratype

CHINA • 1 ♀; Guanyin Mountains , Jinxiu County, Guangxi Province; 900 m a.s.l.; 18 Sep. 1981; Gentao Jin and Fuliang Li leg.; 14514001; SEM .

Other material examined

CHINA • 1 ♀; Hekou , Jinxiu County, Guangxi Province; 600 m a.s.l.; 12 Jun. 2006; Jianhua Huang leg.; CSUFT • 1 ♀; Hekou, Dayaoshan , Jinxiu County, Guangxi Province; 545 m a.s.l.; 24 Sep. 2011; Ruigang Yang leg.; CSUFT • 1 ♂; Jinxiu County, Guangxi Province; 16 Sep. 2021; Chunfu Feng leg.; private collection of Jin-Chen Yang • 1 ♀; Jinxiu County, Guangxi Province; 31 Jul. 2022; Chunfu Feng leg.; private collection of Jin-Chen Yang • 1 ♂; Guposhan, Hezhou City , Guangxi Province; 1000 m a.s.l.; 11 Jul. 2009; Tailin Yu leg.; CSUFT • 1 ♀; Guposhan, Hezhou City , Guangxi Province; 29 Jul. 2013; Guohao Lin leg.; CSUFT • 1 ♀; Jinshi Town , Xing’an County, Guangxi Province; 1000 m a.s.l.; 20 Aug. 2000; Jianhua Huang leg. CSUFT • 1 ♀; Jinshi Town , Xing’an County, Guangxi Province; 29 Aug. 2000; Jianhua Huang leg.; CSUFT • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀; Heishiding, Fengkai County, Zhaoqing City , Guangdong Province; 8 Jul. 2014; Chengli Liu leg.; CSUFT • 2 ♀♀; Gudoushan, Beifengshan Forest Park, Taishan City , Guangdong Province; 22.224968° N, 112.968806° E; 16 Jul. 2024; Wenqing Lv leg.; CSUFT GoogleMaps • 1 ♀; Dajiangyuan, Dupangling Nature Reserve , Daoxian County, Hunan Province; 17 Aug. 2019; Xiang Zeng leg.; CSUFT .

Redescription

MEASUREMENTS (mm). BL: ♂ 25.0–26.0, ♀ 31.6–36.5; PL: ♂ 5.0–5.4, ♀ 7.0–8.0; TL: ♂ 18.0–18.9, ♀ 20.0–24; HFL: ♂ 14.5–15.7, ♀ 15.0–19.8.

Male

BODY. Medium-sized.

HEAD. Punctured and rugose, large but shorter than pronotum. Fastigium obtuse rounded, median keel indistinct, lateral foveola absent. Face oblique in profile view; fontal ridge distinct, longitudinally sulcate throughout, with lateral margin nearly parallel; lateral facial keels curved. Interocular distance broad, twice as broad as frontal ridge between antennal sockets. Eyes oval, with longitudinal diameter about 1.5 × as long as horizontal diameter. Antennae filiform, slightly exceeding base of hind femora; length of median joints about 4 × as long as width.

THORAX. Pronotum punctured and rugose, cylindrical, with anterior margin curved, posterior margin obtusely rounded; median keel and three transversal sulci distinct, lateral keel absent; prozona about 1.6 × as long as metazona. Lateral lobe of pronotum with posterior margin oblique backward, posterior and lower margin undulated. Prosternal spine conical with sharp apex. Interspace of mesosternal lobes narrow, with its length 3 × its minimum width; lateral lobes of metasternum contiguous with each other posteriorly. Tegmina and hind wings well developed.

WINGS. Tegmina subcoriaceous, exceeding abdominal apex, not reaching apex of hind femur, without parallel veinlets in radial and median areas.

LEGS. Hind femora slender, with upper median keels smooth and spined at apex; lower knee lobes with apical spine. Hind tibia without or with extremely small outer apical spine.

GENITALIA. Terminal abdominal tergite with pair of small furculae in middle of posterior margin. Supra-anal plate triangular, with short longitudinal sulcus in middle. Cerci conical. Subgenital plate short and conical, apex slightly obtuse. Epiphallus bridge-shaped, completely divided into two symmetric half, with pair of large and slender outer lophi and small pair of tooth-like inner lophi; ancorae small, apex curved; anterior and posterior projections broadly rounded; oval sclerites elongate. Phallic complex robust; basal valves of penis broad and apodemes long, slightly exceeding basal valves of penis; valves of cingulum short and nearly straight, left and right cingular valves separate, not fused dorso-medially to form valvular plate to cover apical penis valves dorsolaterally; apical valves of penis shorter than valves of cingulum.

COLORATION. Body greenish brown variegated with yellow, or bright blue in some fresh individuals. Head greenish brown and frons yellowish brown. Eyes brown. Occiput with pair of fine yellow longitudinal stripes. Antennae yellowish brown in base, pale yellow apically and remaining section gradually becoming black. Pronotum greenish brown. Tegmina almost opaque, anal area yellow, and rest part dark brown. Hind wings pellucid, with base dusty blue, outer margin brown. Hind femora yellow, with distinct black patch on inner surface near knees and indistinct black maculation on outer surface near knees; knees red. Hind tibiae dark brown; tarsi yellowish. Abdomen with dorsum dark brown, with dark brown maculation in lateral, and rest yellow.

Female

Similar to male but larger and more stout. Antennae exceeding posterior margin of pronotum but not reaching base of hind femora. Metasternum with lateral lobes separate from each other. Ovipositor valves long and slender; dorsal valves ensiform, with serration in upper margin of apex; ventral valves falciform, with serration throughout lower margin. Other features same as males.

Distribution

China ( Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan).

Remarks

In terms of external morphology, P. reticulipennis is very similar to T. gustavi except for the black patch on the outer surface near the knee, which is distinct in T. gustavi but indistinct or even absent sometimes in P. reticulipennis . Since P. reticulipennis completely agrees with the generic diagnosis of the genus Thanmoia , we transfer P. reticulipennis from Paratoacris to Thanmoia as a new combination, T. reticulipennis ( Li & Jin, 1984) comb. nov.