A New Species of the Genus Xya Latreille, 1809 (Orthoptera: Tridactyloidea: Tridactylidae) from Japan

摘要

A new species of pygmy locust in the genus Xya (Tridactylidae), X. leucophrys sp. nov., is described from central Honshu, Japan.The genus Xya Latreille, 1809 contains 61 known species, 21 of which are distributed in Asia, and four species, X.japonica (de Haan, 1844), X. nitobei (Shiraki, 1911), X. apicicornis (Chopard, 1928), andX. riparia (Saussure, 1877), have been found in Japan (de Haan, 1844; Walker, 1871; Saussure, 1877, 1896; Brunner, 1893; Bolivar, 1900 (1899); Matsumura,1911; Shiraki, 1911, 1913, 1936; Chopard, 1928, 1936, 1968; Bey-Bienko, 1967; Gunther, 1974, 1980, 1995; Ingrisch, 1987; Yin et al., 1996; Murai, 2005;Yin et al., 2013; Heads & Hollier, 2016; Kuravova & Kocarek, 2016; Zhang et al., 2017; Cao et al., 2017; Cao et al., 2018; Cao et al., 2020). Here, we describe a new species of this genus from central Japan.