New species and notes on Meconematini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from southern Taiwan
Recent orthopteran sampling was conducted by the authors in Pingtung County in the southern part of Taiwan. A new species of Taiyalia Yamasaki, 1992 is described: Taiyalia meridionalis sp. nov. We also report new locality records for: Leptoteratura taiwana Yamasaki, 1987, Neocyrtopsis (Neocyrtopsis) longicauda Chen & Wu, 2025, and Xizicus (Eoxizicus) taiwanensis Chang, Du & Shi, 2013; as well as Teratura (Teratura) cincta (Bey-Bienko, 1962) and Xiphidiopsis (Euxiphidiopsis) autumnalis (Gorochov, 1998) in Nantou County at the central part of Taiwan.
Authors
- Ming Kai Tan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4324-6305)
- Melissa Sue Ann Chan
- Po-Wei Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1727-4668)
Institutions
- Natural History Museum (GB)
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- Republic Polytechnic (SG)
- Taipei City Government (TW)
- Formosa Plastics (Taiwan) (TW)
- Wildlife Information Liaison Development (IN)
- National University of Formosa (AR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zootaxa
- Published
- 2025-10-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5711.3.3
- Primary Topic
- Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
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