<documentid="C2E970EB41E27684A9907FD686A4C76E"ID-CLB-Dataset="272437"ID-DOI="10.11646/zootaxa.5353.3.1"ID-GBIF-Dataset="3acc730f-4936-4671-a718-d033c8f42a0f"ID-ISSN="1175-5326"ID-Zenodo-Dep="8427318"ID-ZooBank="A8B27F7F-5E7E-4DD4-8E92-A52DD0072BD1"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="carolina"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.tables_approvedBy="carolina"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="carolina"checkinTime="1696945467714"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Carvalho, Pedro Henrique Mendes, Castro-Souza, Rodrigo Antônio & Ferreira, Rodrigo Lopes"docDate="2023"docId="03B887FA9A15FFFAD0D5FD8EBCFE5782"docLanguage="en"docName="zootaxa.5353.3.1.pdf"docOrigin="Zootaxa 5353 (3)"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5353.3.1"docStyle="DocumentStyle:647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D.9:Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleId="647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D"docStyleName="Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="9"docTitle="Endecous (Endecous) bonito Carvalho & Castro-Souza & Ferreira 2023, n. sp."docType="treatment"docVersion="8"lastPageNumber="222"masterDocId="FF81FF829A1BFFEFD042FFBCB8385152"masterDocTitle="Two new species of Endecous Saussure, 1878 (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae) from caves in central-western Brazil, with the proposition of a new subgenus to accommodate E. vitreus Bolfarini & Campos, 2023"masterLastPageNumber="234"masterPageNumber="201"pageNumber="215"updateTime="1732491344660"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CLOSED">
<mods:titleid="660C16C8B6953142019CC8E46A802928">Two new species of Endecous Saussure, 1878 (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Phalangopsidae) from caves in central-western Brazil, with the proposition of a new subgenus to accommodate E. vitreus Bolfarini & Campos, 2023</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="1D1664A62BA6814031C397D5348B729B">Centro de Estudos em Biologia Subterrânea (www. biologiasubterranea. com. br), Setor de Biodiversidade Subterrânea, Departamento de Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Cx Postal 3037, Campus Universitário, CEP 37200 - 000, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil & carvalhopedrohm @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0859 - 0255</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="757CE157291735E4ADD63E8AE68EBB72">Laboratório de Macroecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Departamento de Botânica e Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, CEP 78060 - 900, Cuiabá, MT, Brazil & rodrigodesouzaac @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3439 - 9991</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="5E42119D7B6F4F650E3A03657BD1EDFA">Centro de Estudos em Biologia Subterrânea (www. biologiasubterranea. com. br), Setor de Biodiversidade Subterrânea, Departamento de Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Cx Postal 3037, Campus Universitário, CEP 37200 - 000, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil</mods:affiliation>
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<figureCitationid="132A2A699A15FFE1D112FDEBB9A05320"box="[336,408,599,626]"captionStart="FIGURES 50–58"captionStartId="17.[151,264,1908,1932]"captionTargetBox="[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetId="figure-19@17.[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="FIGURES 50–58. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) male general morphology. (50) pronotum in dorsal view; (51) right tegmen in dorsal view (52) head in dorsal view; (53) head in frontal view; (54) head and palpi in lateral view, compound eye highlighted; (55) pronotum and tegmen in lateral view; (56) supra-anal and subgenital plates in lateral view; (57) supra-anal plate in dorsal view; (58) subgenital plate in ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427344"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427344/files/figure.png"pageId="14"pageNumber="215">50–58</figureCitation>
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<figureCitationid="132A2A699A15FFE1D1E6FDEBB9D45320"box="[420,492,599,626]"captionStart="FIGURES 59–62"captionStartId="18.[151,264,1113,1137]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetId="figure-27@18.[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetPageId="18"captionText="FIGURES 59–62. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) right legs. (59) outer view: leg I and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (60) inner view: leg I, tympanum highlighted, and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (61) inner view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted; (62) outer view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427346"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427346/files/figure.png"pageId="14"pageNumber="215">59–62</figureCitation>
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<figureCitationid="132A2A699A15FFE1D1BAFDEBBA785323"box="[504,576,599,625]"captionStart="FIGURES 63–66"captionStartId="19.[151,264,1940,1964]"captionTargetBox="[159,1426,716,1909]"captionTargetId="figure-311@19.[151,1436,705,1917]"captionTargetPageId="19"captionText="FIGURES 63–66. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. right tegmina, dorsal and lateral view. (63) paratype, ISLA 106138; (64) paratype, ISLA 106139; (65) paratype, ISLA 106140; (66) paratype, ISLA 106157."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427350"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427350/files/figure.png"pageId="14"pageNumber="215">63–66</figureCitation>
<tableCitationid="C69303579A15FFE1D30AFDEBBBA45323"box="[840,924,599,625]"captionStart="TABLE 2"captionStartId="15.[151,239,151,175]"captionTargetPageId="15"captionText="TABLE 2. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp., morphological measurements (mm), mean (M) and standard deviation (SD) of five male and three female adult specimens; pars stridens refers to the number of teeth of the stridulatory file; * unable to measure due to damage in the structure."httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/DF6E66649A14FFE0D0D5FF2BBA9251A5"pageId="14"pageNumber="215"tableUuid="DF6E66649A14FFE0D0D5FF2BBA9251A5">Table 2</tableCitation>
The specific epithet refers to the locality “Bonito”, a municipality located in
<collectingRegionid="49D5F80E9A15FFE1D43DFD25BDA053E1"box="[1151,1432,664,691]"country="Brazil"name="Mato Grosso do Sul"pageId="14"pageNumber="215">Mato Grosso do Sul state</collectingRegion>
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; condition: head, right tegmen, legs I, II and III detached and stored alongside the holotype, phallic complex dissected and also stored alongside the holotype
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—Combination of the following characteristics: pseudepiphallic dorsal branches elongated and abruptly curved inwards, outer margin more sclerotized than the inner margin, apex less sclerotized, dorsally projected after curving inwards, claviform with a rounded tip and bearing several setae on the distal inner surface (
, Ps.db); pseudepiphallic parameres 1 and 2 fused in a single sclerotized and concave structure, ventral portion bean-shaped, dorsal portion diamond-shaped and projected towards the center of the sclerite (
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, Ps.arm); dorsal branches elongated and abruptly curved inwards, outer margin more sclerotized than the inner margin, apex less sclerotized, dorsally projected after curving inwards, claviform with a rounded tip and bearing several setae on the distal inner surface (
, Ps.db); ventral branches sclerotized and elongated, almost reaching the tip of the pseudepiphallic parameres, distal half broader compared to that of
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, A); paramere 1 and 2 fused in a single sclerotized and concave structure, ventral portion bean-shaped, dorsal portion diamond-shaped and projected towards the center of the sclerite (
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, morphological measurements (mm), mean (M) and standard deviation (SD) of five male and three female adult specimens; pars stridens refers to the number of teeth of the stridulatory file; * unable to measure due to damage in the structure.
<emphasisid="B965EAFE9A14FFE0D085F950BA1A5654"bold="true"box="[199,546,1772,1798]"pageId="15"pageNumber="216">Variations in phallic sclerites</emphasis>
106157)— Phallic complexes vary slightly in size and degree of sclerotization;pseudepiphallic arms (Ps.arm)and pseudepiphallic dorsal branches (Ps.db) vary slightly in degree of inclination and sinuosity, pseudepiphallic dorsal branches tips almost touching or slightly distant from one another; pseudepiphallic parameres (Ps.p) ventral portion also nearly touching or far from each other; pseudepiphallic inner bars (Ps.ib) vary slightly in degree of inclination, central portion straight or pointing downwards; ectophallic apodemes (Ect.ap) distal end vary slightly in degree of curvature and sclerotization; ectophallic median projections (Ect.mp) straight or inclined outwards.
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(ISLA 106138) male general morphology. (50) pronotum in dorsal view; (51) right tegmen in dorsal view (52) head in dorsal view; (53) head in frontal view; (54) head and palpi in lateral view, compound eye highlighted; (55) pronotum and tegmen in lateral view; (56) supra-anal and subgenital plates in lateral view; (57) supra-anal plate in dorsal view; (58) subgenital plate in ventral view.
<taxonomicNameid="4C114D6F9A09FFFDD119FBE5BAB85523"authority="Carvalho & Castro-Souza & Ferreira, 2023"authorityName="Carvalho & Castro-Souza & Ferreira"authorityYear="2023"box="[347,640,1113,1138]"class="Insecta"family="Phalangopsidae"genus="Endecous"kingdom="Animalia"order="Orthoptera"pageId="18"pageNumber="219"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="bonito"status="sp. nov."subGenus="Endecous">
(ISLA 106138) right legs. (59) outer view: leg I and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (60) inner view: leg I, tympanum highlighted, and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (61) inner view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted; (62) outer view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted.
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A09FFFDD2C1FAB0BB325474"box="[643,778,1291,1318]"captionStart-0="FIGURES 50–58"captionStart-1="FIGURES 59–62"captionStart-2="FIGURES 63–66"captionStartId-0="17.[151,264,1908,1932]"captionStartId-1="18.[151,264,1113,1137]"captionStartId-2="19.[151,264,1940,1964]"captionTargetBox-0="[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetBox-1="[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetBox-2="[159,1426,716,1909]"captionTargetId-0="figure-19@17.[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetId-1="figure-27@18.[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetId-2="figure-311@19.[151,1436,705,1917]"captionTargetPageId-0="17"captionTargetPageId-1="18"captionTargetPageId-2="19"captionText-0="FIGURES 50–58. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) male general morphology. (50) pronotum in dorsal view; (51) right tegmen in dorsal view (52) head in dorsal view; (53) head in frontal view; (54) head and palpi in lateral view, compound eye highlighted; (55) pronotum and tegmen in lateral view; (56) supra-anal and subgenital plates in lateral view; (57) supra-anal plate in dorsal view; (58) subgenital plate in ventral view."captionText-1="FIGURES 59–62. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) right legs. (59) outer view: leg I and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (60) inner view: leg I, tympanum highlighted, and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (61) inner view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted; (62) outer view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted."captionText-2="FIGURES 63–66. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. right tegmina, dorsal and lateral view. (63) paratype, ISLA 106138; (64) paratype, ISLA 106139; (65) paratype, ISLA 106140; (66) paratype, ISLA 106157."figureDoi-0="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427344"figureDoi-1="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427346"figureDoi-2="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427350"httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/8427344/files/figure.png"httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/8427346/files/figure.png"httpUri-2="https://zenodo.org/record/8427350/files/figure.png"pageId="18"pageNumber="219">Figs. 50–63</figureCitation>
: vertex, scape, pedicel and flagellum dark yellowish brown, vertex with four poorly-marked longitudinal stripes; fastigium dark brown; front and gena varying from light yellow to white; clypeus and labrum almost completely white; mandibles and maxiles yellowish brown, galea and labium light yellow; ommatidia black, with a slightly depigmented area near the base of the antennal scapes (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A09FFFDD0ADFA20B94054E4"box="[239,376,1435,1462]"captionStart="FIGURES 50–58"captionStartId="17.[151,264,1908,1932]"captionTargetBox="[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetId="figure-19@17.[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="FIGURES 50–58. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) male general morphology. (50) pronotum in dorsal view; (51) right tegmen in dorsal view (52) head in dorsal view; (53) head in frontal view; (54) head and palpi in lateral view, compound eye highlighted; (55) pronotum and tegmen in lateral view; (56) supra-anal and subgenital plates in lateral view; (57) supra-anal plate in dorsal view; (58) subgenital plate in ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427344"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427344/files/figure.png"pageId="18"pageNumber="219">Figs. 52–54</figureCitation>
); all maxillary and labial palpomeres light yellow, maxillary palpomere V and labial palpomere III whitish at the tip (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A09FFFDD1D8FA7CBA605488"box="[410,600,1471,1498]"captionStart="FIGURES 50–58"captionStartId="17.[151,264,1908,1932]"captionTargetBox="[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetId="figure-19@17.[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="FIGURES 50–58. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) male general morphology. (50) pronotum in dorsal view; (51) right tegmen in dorsal view (52) head in dorsal view; (53) head in frontal view; (54) head and palpi in lateral view, compound eye highlighted; (55) pronotum and tegmen in lateral view; (56) supra-anal and subgenital plates in lateral view; (57) supra-anal plate in dorsal view; (58) subgenital plate in ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427344"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427344/files/figure.png"pageId="18"pageNumber="219">Figs. 53 and 54</figureCitation>
); pronotum, tegmina and abdomen brown, pronotum with darker spots, mainly on the posterior margin, last portions of the latter tergites brown (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A09FFFDD3B4FA58BD2854AC"box="[1014,1296,1507,1534]"captionStart="FIGURES 50–58"captionStartId="17.[151,264,1908,1932]"captionTargetBox="[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetId="figure-19@17.[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="FIGURES 50–58. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) male general morphology. (50) pronotum in dorsal view; (51) right tegmen in dorsal view (52) head in dorsal view; (53) head in frontal view; (54) head and palpi in lateral view, compound eye highlighted; (55) pronotum and tegmen in lateral view; (56) supra-anal and subgenital plates in lateral view; (57) supra-anal plate in dorsal view; (58) subgenital plate in ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427344"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427344/files/figure.png"pageId="18"pageNumber="219">Figs. 50, 51, 55 and 56</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A09FFFDD304F9B4BBEC5770"box="[838,980,1543,1570]"captionStart="FIGURES 50–58"captionStartId="17.[151,264,1908,1932]"captionTargetBox="[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetId="figure-19@17.[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="FIGURES 50–58. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) male general morphology. (50) pronotum in dorsal view; (51) right tegmen in dorsal view (52) head in dorsal view; (53) head in frontal view; (54) head and palpi in lateral view, compound eye highlighted; (55) pronotum and tegmen in lateral view; (56) supra-anal and subgenital plates in lateral view; (57) supra-anal plate in dorsal view; (58) subgenital plate in ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427344"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427344/files/figure.png"pageId="18"pageNumber="219">Figs. 56–58</figureCitation>
); cerci yellowish brown, darker at first sight due to the presence of setae (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A09FFFDD25CF990BA4B5714"box="[542,627,1579,1606]"captionStart="FIGURES 50–58"captionStartId="17.[151,264,1908,1932]"captionTargetBox="[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetId="figure-19@17.[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="FIGURES 50–58. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) male general morphology. (50) pronotum in dorsal view; (51) right tegmen in dorsal view (52) head in dorsal view; (53) head in frontal view; (54) head and palpi in lateral view, compound eye highlighted; (55) pronotum and tegmen in lateral view; (56) supra-anal and subgenital plates in lateral view; (57) supra-anal plate in dorsal view; (58) subgenital plate in ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427344"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427344/files/figure.png"pageId="18"pageNumber="219">Fig. 56</figureCitation>
); legs yellowish brown, darker near the joints, white at their base (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A09FFFDD526F990B8DA5738"captionStart="FIGURES 59–62"captionStartId="18.[151,264,1113,1137]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetId="figure-27@18.[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetPageId="18"captionText="FIGURES 59–62. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) right legs. (59) outer view: leg I and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (60) inner view: leg I, tympanum highlighted, and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (61) inner view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted; (62) outer view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427346"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427346/files/figure.png"pageId="18"pageNumber="219">Figs. 59–62</figureCitation>
: slightly pubescent, elongated in frontal view; fastigium as a short and narrow extension of the vertex, inclined and pointing downwards, with long bristles; mandibles sclerotized at the apex and lateral margins; maxiles sclerotized at the apex; maxillary palpomeres I and II short and same-sized, III–V longer, palpomere V claviform; labial palpomeres I–III increasing in size, palpomere III dilated at the apex; compound eyes reduced and diamondlike in shape, more developed when compared to those of
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<figureCitationid="132A2A699A09FFFDD4DFF95CBD1257A8"box="[1181,1322,1759,1786]"captionStart="FIGURES 50–58"captionStartId="17.[151,264,1908,1932]"captionTargetBox="[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetId="figure-19@17.[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="FIGURES 50–58. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) male general morphology. (50) pronotum in dorsal view; (51) right tegmen in dorsal view (52) head in dorsal view; (53) head in frontal view; (54) head and palpi in lateral view, compound eye highlighted; (55) pronotum and tegmen in lateral view; (56) supra-anal and subgenital plates in lateral view; (57) supra-anal plate in dorsal view; (58) subgenital plate in ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427344"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427344/files/figure.png"pageId="18"pageNumber="219">Figs. 52–54</figureCitation>
in width and length, respectively), pubescent, anterior and posterior margins arched and covered in long bristles, lateral lobes subtriangular in shape and slightly shifted towards the head (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A09FFFDD1F8F8F0BA565634"box="[442,622,1867,1894]"captionStart="FIGURES 50–58"captionStartId="17.[151,264,1908,1932]"captionTargetBox="[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetId="figure-19@17.[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="FIGURES 50–58. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) male general morphology. (50) pronotum in dorsal view; (51) right tegmen in dorsal view (52) head in dorsal view; (53) head in frontal view; (54) head and palpi in lateral view, compound eye highlighted; (55) pronotum and tegmen in lateral view; (56) supra-anal and subgenital plates in lateral view; (57) supra-anal plate in dorsal view; (58) subgenital plate in ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427344"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427344/files/figure.png"pageId="18"pageNumber="219">Figs. 50 and 55</figureCitation>
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with two almost completely parallel longitudinal veins connected by short poorly-marked secondary veins, and more than ten anastomotic secondary veins leading to the right margin of the tegmina (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A08FFFCD526FF2BB8E75187"captionStart="FIGURES 50–58"captionStartId="17.[151,264,1908,1932]"captionTargetBox="[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetId="figure-19@17.[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="FIGURES 50–58. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) male general morphology. (50) pronotum in dorsal view; (51) right tegmen in dorsal view (52) head in dorsal view; (53) head in frontal view; (54) head and palpi in lateral view, compound eye highlighted; (55) pronotum and tegmen in lateral view; (56) supra-anal and subgenital plates in lateral view; (57) supra-anal plate in dorsal view; (58) subgenital plate in ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427344"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427344/files/figure.png"pageId="19"pageNumber="220">Figs. 51, 55</figureCitation>
and
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A08FFFCD158FF07B9015187"box="[282,313,187,213]"captionStart="FIGURES 63–66"captionStartId="19.[151,264,1940,1964]"captionTargetBox="[159,1426,716,1909]"captionTargetId="figure-311@19.[151,1436,705,1917]"captionTargetPageId="19"captionText="FIGURES 63–66. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. right tegmina, dorsal and lateral view. (63) paratype, ISLA 106138; (64) paratype, ISLA 106139; (65) paratype, ISLA 106140; (66) paratype, ISLA 106157."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427350"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427350/files/figure.png"pageId="19"pageNumber="220">63</figureCitation>
: cerci pubescent, with long bristles throughout all their extension and globose setae at their base, mostly on the inner side (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A08FFFCD3E2FF63BC1451AB"box="[928,1068,222,249]"captionStart="FIGURES 50–58"captionStartId="17.[151,264,1908,1932]"captionTargetBox="[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetId="figure-19@17.[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="FIGURES 50–58. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) male general morphology. (50) pronotum in dorsal view; (51) right tegmen in dorsal view (52) head in dorsal view; (53) head in frontal view; (54) head and palpi in lateral view, compound eye highlighted; (55) pronotum and tegmen in lateral view; (56) supra-anal and subgenital plates in lateral view; (57) supra-anal plate in dorsal view; (58) subgenital plate in ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427344"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427344/files/figure.png"pageId="19"pageNumber="220">Figs. 56–58</figureCitation>
); supra-anal plate as long as the subgenital plate, subtriangular, distal margin rounded and covered in long bristles, lateral projections short and rounded, paraprocts as long as the supra-anal plate (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A08FFFCD29EFE9BBBB55013"box="[732,909,294,321]"captionStart="FIGURES 50–58"captionStartId="17.[151,264,1908,1932]"captionTargetBox="[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetId="figure-19@17.[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="FIGURES 50–58. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) male general morphology. (50) pronotum in dorsal view; (51) right tegmen in dorsal view (52) head in dorsal view; (53) head in frontal view; (54) head and palpi in lateral view, compound eye highlighted; (55) pronotum and tegmen in lateral view; (56) supra-anal and subgenital plates in lateral view; (57) supra-anal plate in dorsal view; (58) subgenital plate in ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427344"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427344/files/figure.png"pageId="19"pageNumber="220">Figs. 56 and 57</figureCitation>
); subgenital plate proximal margin substraight, distal margin rounded, with a small dent in the center and covered in bristles (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A08FFFCD443FEF7BCB35037"box="[1025,1163,330,357]"captionStart="FIGURES 50–58"captionStartId="17.[151,264,1908,1932]"captionTargetBox="[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetId="figure-19@17.[192,1396,181,1885]"captionTargetPageId="17"captionText="FIGURES 50–58. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) male general morphology. (50) pronotum in dorsal view; (51) right tegmen in dorsal view (52) head in dorsal view; (53) head in frontal view; (54) head and palpi in lateral view, compound eye highlighted; (55) pronotum and tegmen in lateral view; (56) supra-anal and subgenital plates in lateral view; (57) supra-anal plate in dorsal view; (58) subgenital plate in ventral view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427344"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427344/files/figure.png"pageId="19"pageNumber="220">Figs. 56–58</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A08FFFCD0DDFED3B96A50DB"box="[159,338,366,393]"captionStart="FIGURES 59–62"captionStartId="18.[151,264,1113,1137]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetId="figure-27@18.[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetPageId="18"captionText="FIGURES 59–62. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) right legs. (59) outer view: leg I and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (60) inner view: leg I, tympanum highlighted, and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (61) inner view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted; (62) outer view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427346"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427346/files/figure.png"pageId="19"pageNumber="220">Figs. 59 and 60</figureCitation>
): tibia with an oval tympanum on its inner side and two ventral apical spurs; tarsomere I ventrally serrated and longer than tarsomeres II and III together.
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A08FFFCD315FE2FBC3250FF"box="[855,1034,402,429]"captionStart="FIGURES 59–62"captionStartId="18.[151,264,1113,1137]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetId="figure-27@18.[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetPageId="18"captionText="FIGURES 59–62. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) right legs. (59) outer view: leg I and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (60) inner view: leg I, tympanum highlighted, and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (61) inner view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted; (62) outer view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427346"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427346/files/figure.png"pageId="19"pageNumber="220">Figs. 59 and 60</figureCitation>
): tibia with two ventral apical spurs of equal size and two lateral short spurs, one on each side; tarsomere I ventrally serrated and longer than tarsomeres II and III together.
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A08FFFCD190FE67BAB050A7"box="[466,648,475,501]"captionStart="FIGURES 59–62"captionStartId="18.[151,264,1113,1137]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetId="figure-27@18.[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetPageId="18"captionText="FIGURES 59–62. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) right legs. (59) outer view: leg I and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (60) inner view: leg I, tympanum highlighted, and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (61) inner view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted; (62) outer view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427346"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427346/files/figure.png"pageId="19"pageNumber="220">Figs. 61 and 62</figureCitation>
, respectively); tibia armed with three subapical spurs on the inner side (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A08FFFCD3ABFE43BC04534B"box="[1001,1084,511,537]"captionStart="FIGURES 59–62"captionStartId="18.[151,264,1113,1137]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetId="figure-27@18.[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetPageId="18"captionText="FIGURES 59–62. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) right legs. (59) outer view: leg I and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (60) inner view: leg I, tympanum highlighted, and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (61) inner view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted; (62) outer view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427346"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427346/files/figure.png"pageId="19"pageNumber="220">Fig. 61</figureCitation>
; m, n, o), four on the outer side (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A08FFFCD0DDFD9FB8CB536F"box="[159,243,547,573]"captionStart="FIGURES 59–62"captionStartId="18.[151,264,1113,1137]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetId="figure-27@18.[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetPageId="18"captionText="FIGURES 59–62. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) right legs. (59) outer view: leg I and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (60) inner view: leg I, tympanum highlighted, and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (61) inner view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted; (62) outer view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427346"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427346/files/figure.png"pageId="19"pageNumber="220">Fig. 62</figureCitation>
; w, x, y, z), the most distal one, “z”, being the shortest, four apical spurs on the inner side (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A08FFFCD4B7FD9FBD70536F"box="[1269,1352,547,573]"captionStart="FIGURES 59–62"captionStartId="18.[151,264,1113,1137]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetId="figure-27@18.[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetPageId="18"captionText="FIGURES 59–62. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) right legs. (59) outer view: leg I and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (60) inner view: leg I, tympanum highlighted, and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (61) inner view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted; (62) outer view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427346"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427346/files/figure.png"pageId="19"pageNumber="220">Fig. 61</figureCitation>
; d, e, f, g), spurs “e” and “f” longer the “d” and “g”, and three on the outer side (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A08FFFCD380FDFBBC2D5333"box="[962,1045,583,609]"captionStart="FIGURES 59–62"captionStartId="18.[151,264,1113,1137]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetId="figure-27@18.[151,1436,181,1089]"captionTargetPageId="18"captionText="FIGURES 59–62. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. (ISLA 106138) right legs. (59) outer view: leg I and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (60) inner view: leg I, tympanum highlighted, and leg II, apical spurs highlighted; (61) inner view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted; (62) outer view: leg III, apical spurs highlighted."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427346"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427346/files/figure.png"pageId="19"pageNumber="220">Fig. 62</figureCitation>
; a, b, c), spur “a” being the longest and “c” the shortest; tarsomere I longer than tarsomeres II and III together, ventrally serrated, with two apical spurs, the inner one being the longest.
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with two parallel longitudinal veins that may or may not be connected through short secondary veins, and ten or more well-marked, sometimes anastomotic, secondary veins branching out of the longitudinal veins and reaching the right margin of the tegmina.
in length, respectively); apterous; supra-anal plate subtriangular in shape, pubescent, with long bristles covering the distal margin, which is rounded, lateral projections short and rounded (
in length) shorter than the cerci, shaped like a curved sword, with a dorsoventral constriction near the tip, apex tapered, but rounded when compared to that of
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)—sclerotized and chalice-like; anterior potion broadened, ventral side with a M-shaped extension, making the ventral margin substantially longer than the dorsal margin; posterior portion membranous with a small circular opening on the ventral side.
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were found in two caves located in the municipalities of Bodoquena (Gruta Dona Benedita cave) and Bonito (Gruta S„o Mateus cave). The observed populations are not notably large, with immature specimens being more readily encountered than adults in all caves where the species is present. As mentioned for
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, this species is likely to have a wide distribution in the region, given the distances between the caves where specimens were found and the limited number of caves sampled in this study. It is noteworthy that both
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was observed in a show cave (Gruta S„o Mateus cave (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A0EFFFAD363F9F6BBE85736"box="[801,976,1610,1637]"captionStart="FIGURES 74–78"captionStartId="22.[151,264,1943,1967]"captionTargetBox="[179,1408,181,1919]"captionTargetId="figure-27@22.[179,1408,181,1919]"captionTargetPageId="22"captionText="FIGURES 74–78. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. habitat. (74) Gruta S„o Mateus cave, external environment; (75) Gruta S„o Mateus cave, entrance; (76) Gruta S„o Mateus cave, entrance and internal environment; (77) adult male of E. (E.) bonito n. sp.; (78) adult female of E. (E.) bonito n. sp. Photo credits: Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427356"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427356/files/figure.png"pageId="21"pageNumber="222">Figs. 75 and 76</figureCitation>
), even within the tourist route of the cave (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A0EFFFAD0DDF9D2B96A57DA"box="[159,338,1646,1673]"captionStart="FIGURES 74–78"captionStartId="22.[151,264,1943,1967]"captionTargetBox="[179,1408,181,1919]"captionTargetId="figure-27@22.[179,1408,181,1919]"captionTargetPageId="22"captionText="FIGURES 74–78. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. habitat. (74) Gruta S„o Mateus cave, external environment; (75) Gruta S„o Mateus cave, entrance; (76) Gruta S„o Mateus cave, entrance and internal environment; (77) adult male of E. (E.) bonito n. sp.; (78) adult female of E. (E.) bonito n. sp. Photo credits: Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427356"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427356/files/figure.png"pageId="21"pageNumber="222">Figs. 77 and 78</figureCitation>
). This cave attracts numerous visitors, suggesting that this species exhibits considerable tolerance to anthropogenic impacts. Furthermore, the close proximity of this cave in relation to the city of Bonito (
<figureCitationid="132A2A699A0EFFFAD503F92EBDAC57FE"box="[1345,1428,1682,1708]"captionStart="FIGURES 74–78"captionStartId="22.[151,264,1943,1967]"captionTargetBox="[179,1408,181,1919]"captionTargetId="figure-27@22.[179,1408,181,1919]"captionTargetPageId="22"captionText="FIGURES 74–78. Endecous (Endecous) bonito n. sp. habitat. (74) Gruta S„o Mateus cave, external environment; (75) Gruta S„o Mateus cave, entrance; (76) Gruta S„o Mateus cave, entrance and internal environment; (77) adult male of E. (E.) bonito n. sp.; (78) adult female of E. (E.) bonito n. sp. Photo credits: Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427356"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/8427356/files/figure.png"pageId="21"pageNumber="222">Fig. 74</figureCitation>
) also suggests a certain level of tolerance for anthropogenic conditions exhibited by this species.