A new species of Truljalia Gorochov 1985 from Taiwan (Orthoptera: Gryllidae; Podoscirtinae; Podoscirtini)
Author
He, Zhuqing
text
Zootaxa
2012
3591
79
83
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.211315
17ad5f5d-e1c3-4b6e-b3ef-85de1a967075
1175-5326
211315
Truljalia
Gorochov, 1985
Truljalia
Gorochov, 1985
: 89
; 2002: 323;
Wang & Woo, 1992
: 237
;
Yin & Liu, 1995
: 110
;
Liu & Shi, 2011
: 32
.
Type
species.
Calyptotrypus citri
Bey-Bienko, 1956
.
Gorochov described
Truljalia
designating
Calyptotrypus citri
Bey-Bienko, 1956
as
type
species citing its characteristic male genitalic structure. The epiphallus included a pair of lobes and a pair of large hooks with the guiding rod very large and vertically thin, but swollen apically.
Truljalia
is divided into two groups based on differences in the structure of the male anal plate. The anal plates in Group I are bifurcated and the those in Group II are not. There are now 16 species (including subspecies) in the genus from
Bhutan
,
Indo
–
China
Peninsula, Kalimantan Island, Java Island, South of
China
and
Japan
(
Liu & Shi, 2011
;
Eades, Otte, Cigliano & Braun, 2012
). The nymphs are usually brick red with a black abdomen and antenna. They become green in last two instars. Adults are nearly green. The reddish abdomen can be viewed vaguely through the mirror.