First record of Pseudophyllus titan White, 1846 (Orthoptera: Tettiginiidae, Pseudophyllinae) from Vietnam

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by  S. Yu. Storozhenko

Far Eastern Entomologist
Number 348: 15-16 ISSN 1026-051X December 2017
https://doi.org/10.25221/fee.348.2
http/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C80E33D9-E230-49B4-AEE2-ADF66EFB5A3D

FIRST RECORD OF PSEUDOPHYLLUS TITAN WHITE, 1846
(ORTHOPTERA: TETTIGINIIDAE, PSEUDOPHYLLINAE)
FROM VIETNAM

S. Yu. Storozhenko

Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far East Branch of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia. E-mail: [email protected]
Summary. The giant false-leaf katydid Pseudophyllus titan White, 1846 is recorded
from Vietnam for the first time. The genus Pseudophyllus Serville, 1831 is also new for this
country.
Key words: Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Pseudophyllinae, fauna, new record, South East
Asia.

С. Ю. Стороженко. Первое указание Pseudophyllus titan White, 1846
(Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Pseudophyllinae) из Вьетнама // Дальневосточ-
ный энтомолог. 2017. N 348. С. 15-16.

Резюме. Впервые из Вьетнама указывается гигантский кузнечик Pseudophyllus titan
White, 1846. Род Pseudophyllus Serville, 1831 также впервые приводится для этой
страны.

Nowadays 24 species in10 genera and four tribes of the subfamily Pseudophyllinae
(Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) are known from Vietnam (Kim & Pham, 2017; Cigliano et al.,
2017). The genus Pseudophyllus Serville, 1831 (with 7 species in Oriental region) has been
never recorded from Vietnam. The largest species of this genus was collected in northern
Vietnam.

NEW RECORD

Pseudophyllus titan White, 1846
Figs 1–4

MATERIAL. Vietnam: Bac Kan Province, 240 km NW Hanoi, Ba Bë National Park, Ho
Ba Bë Lake, 22°23ʹ50ʹʹ N, 105°37ʹ10ʹʹ E, 24.IV 2014, coll. M.P. Tiunov.
DISTRIBUTION. India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Vietnam (new record).
NOTES. Measurements of Vietnamese male are as follow: length of body 58, pronotum
20, tegmen 102, hind femur 30, hind tibia 31 mm. Habitus, wing-venation, sternum, apex of
abdomen and subgenital plate of Vietnamese specimen are typical for this species.

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Figs. 1–3. Pseudophyllus titan, male. 1 – body, dorsal view; 2 – stermum, ventral view; 3
– apex of abdomen, lateral view; 4 – subgenital plate.

REFERENCES

Kim, T.W. & Pham, H.T. 2014. Checklist of Vietnamese Orthoptera (Saltatoria). Zootaxa,
3811(1): 53–82. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3811.1.3
Cigliano, M. M., Braun, H., Eades, D. C., & Otte, D. 2017. Orthoptera Species File Online.
Version 5.0/5.0. Available from: http://Orthoptera.SpeciesFile.org. (Accessed: 25 October
2017)

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