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| Neophlugiolopsis? nigrivertex Xiong, Chen & Shi, 2026 |
The genus Neophlugiolopsis was established by Pan & Bian (2024), with Neophlugiolopsis longiprocera Pan & Bian, 2024 as the type species. It resembles Phlugiolopsis Zeuner, 1940, Paraphlugiolopsis Bian & Shi, 2014, Aphlugiolopsis Wang, Liu & Li, 2015, Pseudophlugiolopsis Wang, Zhou & Chang, 2020 and Guangxia An, Chen & Shi, 2023, but can be distinguished from them mainly by the following characters: tegmina reach the middle of abdomen, and posterior area of male tenth abdominal tergite is strongly produced posteriorly into a long process.
In this paper, a new species from Guangxi, China is described and tentatively assigned to the genus Neophlugiolopsis. All type specimens are deposited in the Museum of Hebei University.
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| Neophlugiolopsis? nigrivertex sp. nov., male: A–B. head and pronotum: A. dorsal view; B. lateral view; C–F. apex of abdomen: C. ventral view; D. latero-ventral view; E. dorsal view; F. lateral view. |
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| Neophlugiolopsis? nigrivertex sp. nov., male in habitat. |
Neophlugiolopsis? nigrivertex sp. nov.
Chinese name: 黑顶新吟螽
Etymology. The specific name refers to the black dorsal surface of the vertex. It is derived from Latin nigri-, meaning “black”, and vertex, meaning “top of the head”.
ZIJIAN XIONG, KEDA CHEN and FUMING SHI. 2026. One New Species of the Genus Neophlugiolopsis Pan & Bian, 2024 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from Guangxi, China. Zootaxa. 5845(1); 197-200. DOI: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5845.1.12 [2026-07-03]
