Taxonomic revision of Teleogryllus mitratus (Burmeister, 1838) and T. occipitalis (Serville, 1838) in India, withthe description of Teleogryllus rohinae Jaiswara & Jain sp. nov. and a key for Teleogryllus species from India (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
Author
Jaiswara, Ranjana
Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali 140306, Punjab, India. & Present Address: Department of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India.
Author
Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversit, ISYEB, Museum national d’histoire naturelle, Sorbonne université, CNRS, UPMC, EPHE, Université de Antilles, CP 50, 57 rue Cuvier 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Author
Jain, Manjari
Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali 140306, Punjab, India.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-08-04
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10.11646/zootaxa.5016.1.3
1175-5326
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Teleogryllus mitratus
(
Burmeister, 1838
)
Figures 1
,
2A–H
,
5A–C
,
6A–B
,
7A–C
,
8A
,
9A–B
,
10A–D
,
11A–B
;
Table 1a & b
Gryllus mitratus
Burmeister, 1838: 734
.
Teleogryllus mitratus
—
Chopard 1961: 277
—
Townsend 1980: 158
.
Teleogryllus
(
Macroteleogryllus
)
mitratus
—
Gorochov 1985: 11
.
=
Gryllus testaceus
Walker, 1869
.
Lectotype
male,
China
,
Canton
(NHM). Synonymy in
Townsend (1980)
.
=
Teleogryllus meghalayanus
Lahiri and Ghosh, 1975
.
Holotype
male,
India
,
Shillon
(ZSI).
Synonymy
in
Townsend (1980)
.
Type locality:
Asia-Tropical
,
Malaysia
,
Java
FIGURE 2.
External morphological features of
Teleogryllus mitratus
(
Burmeister, 1838
)
: (A–B) dorsal and lateral view of head and pronotum, (C) articles of maxillary palpi, (D–E) dorsal and lateral view of male sub-genital plate, (F) supra-anal plate, (G) female sub-genital plate and (H) apex of ovipositor. Scale 2mm.
Type material:
Lectotype
—Java,
1 male
(
MNHU
). Designated in
Townsend (1980)
.
Materials examined:
25 ♂
and
15 ♀
.
India
:
Punjab
, IISER
Mohali
,
308m
asl
,
30° 39′49.36′′N
76° 43′ 43.83 ′′E
;
Uttar Pradesh
,
Chandan Chauki
,
25km
from
Palia Kalan
,
179m
asl
,
28° 29′ 14.7′′ N
80° 38′ 57.8′′ E
;
Kerala
,
Bekal Club
,
12° 16′ 20.3′′ N
75° 6′ 47.4′′ E
,
7m
asl
,
8km
from
Nileshwar Railway Station
,
24.i.2017
;
Karnataka
,
Kadari
,
25km
from
Karkala
,
64m
asl
,
13° 13′ 19.4′′ N
75° 5′ 22.8′′ E
collected and identified by
R. Jaiswara
&
M. Jain
,
IISERM
.
[
India
],
Darjeeling
(sic),
2 ♂
, 10676 (dissected), 10677, identified
T. mitratus
by
L. Desutter-Grandcolas
,
MNHN
;
Darjeeling
(sic),
Singla
,
2 ♀
, 10672, 10673,
MNHN
.
Viet Nam
, Hanoii [Phnom Penh],
1 male
, 1916, G. Dupouy, identified
T. testaceus
by L. Chopard, dissected and identified
T. mitratus
by L. Desutter-Grandcolas,
MNHN
.
India
,
Chilka lake
nr.
Maludai
,
1 ♀
, 14.iv.14, N.A.,
MNHN
.
[
India
], Negungadu,
1 ♂
(10680, identified
T. mitratus
by L. Desutter-Grandcolas), 29.iv.37;
1 ♀
, 13.v.37;
1 ♀
, 12.v.37, at light,
MNHN
.
[
Viet Nam
],
Phu Long Thuong
,
1 ♂
, 18.iv.07, dissected and identified
T. mitratus
by
L. Desutter-Grandcolas
,
MNHN
.
[
Viet Nam
],
Phu Song
,
Annam
,
1 ♂
(dissected and identified
T. mitratus
by
L. Desutter-Grandcolas
),
1 ♀
(10650), xi–xii,
H. Rolle
,
Berlin
SWU
,
MNHN
.
[
Viet Nam
],
Annam
,
1 ♂
(10603, dissected by
L. Chopard
)
,
1 ♀
(10634), identified
T. mitratus
by L. Desutter-
Grandcolas
,
MNHN
.
Indochine
[
Viet Nam
],
Phnom Penh
,
1 ♂
(1644, identified
T. mitratus
by
L. Desutter-Grandcolas
),
1 ♀
,
E. Irai
,
MNHN
.
Emended diagnosis:
Inner margins of eyes with thin or no yellow band; pronotum lateral lobe yellow with rufous-brown anterior margin and blackish-brown posterior margin (
Fig. 2B
).
Male.
FW length varying between 6
th
–9
th
abdominal tergite; stridulatory file with an average number of 185±29 (n=19) teeth; harp with 4–6 veins usually (occasionally 3); mirror wider than long. Male genitalia: in dorsal view, pseudepiphallic median process longer than lateral processes and narrowing posteriorly (
Fig. 10A–C
).
Female.
FW length restricted to 5
th
–9
th
abdominal segment; ovipositor slightly shorter than body length. Copulatory papilla sclerotized to 3/4
th
of its length, anterior part membranous (
Fig. 11A–B
).
Emended Description:
In addition to the characters of the genus: Large species.
Legs.
TI with a pair of ventral apical spurs, outer spur smaller than inner; one inner dorsal apical spur. TII with a pair of ventral and dorsal apical spurs, inner spurs smaller. FIII distally tapering; TIII inner ventral spur slightly longer than outer; sub-apical spurs on inner margin 5–6 and outer 6–7 (most often 6 on both sides). Basitarsomeres III with 4–5 spines on inner margin and 4–7 spines on outer.
Color.
Head dorsum and pronotum rufous to dark brown. Face yellow to light brown. Scape basally brown; occiput with no or faintly visible vertical yellow strips; thin yellow line, and inner margin of eyes (
Fig. 10D
). Palpi light brown (
Fig. 2C
). The area below median ocelli sometimes with a pair of brown dots. Pronotum dorsal disc same color as head; lateral lobe yellow with rufous-brown anterior and black-brown posterior margin (
Fig. 2B
). Fore and midleg yellow with brown setae. Hindleg yellow to light brown.
Male.
FW mostly extended to 9
th
abdominal tergite, sometimes extended slightly beyond but restricted before the posterior margin of epiproct; HW length shorter than FW or very long extended beyond the abdomen. Stridulatory file with 158 to 199 teeth (mean 178, n=6); teeth on the file vein longer than wide and usually curled on either ends lengthwise (
Fig. 8A
). FW with 4–6 harp veins (rarely 3), first two veins strongly bisinuated; diagonal vein straight, chord veins regularly spaced (
Fig. 7A–C
). Mirror mostly wider than long, most often divided into two cells by a vein. Apical field long and oval on posterior margin, with five cell alignments. Lateral field with 11–15 veins. Sub genital plate longer than high in lateral view (
Fig. 2E
); supra-anal plate wider than long, apically trapezium-shaped (
Fig. 2F
).
Male genitalia.
Pseudepiphallus long and acute posteriorly. In lateral view, apical part pointed and bulged high in the middle (
Fig. 10B
); in dorsal view, part of pseudepiphallus as crests on either side of the median structure, the lateral crests much shorter in length (
Fig. 10A
); lateral margin of pseudepiphallus very convex; apodemes of pseudepiphallus very long, anteriorly acute and twisted from the middle of their length; pseudepiphallic parameres long. Rami straight to slightly convex on its length, with shallow bifurcation posteriorly. Ectophallic fold very long, sclerotized; either thin filament-like structure extended way beyond posterior margin of pseudepiphallus or shorter and not filament-like. Dorsal cavity long.
Female.
Body size either as that of male or bigger. FWs of variable length extended to 4
th
to 8
th
abdominal tergite; dorsal field with 11–13 diagonally parallel longitudinal veins; dorsal and lateral fields reddish-brown, the area between MA and MP yellow; lateral field with 11–15 yellow-colored veins (
Fig. 9A–B
). Ovipositor almost of the body length or slightly smaller.
Female genitalia.
Copulatory papilla mostly sclerotized as in
Fig. 11A–B
. Anteriorly conical shaped and membranous, posteriorly square-shaped and sclerotized.
Remarks:
It may be noted that the stridulatory file is variable in the mean number of teeth. In the population of IISERM=180±13, CC= 174±27 and KAD= 195±45.
The specimens of
T. mitratus
observed by
Lu
et al.
(2018)
are similar in colouration and size, except for shorter ovipositor in female (
17–19 mm
against
21.1 to 24.2 mm
), which globally covers the variability of ovipositor length in the species mentioned by
Townsend (1980)
.
The pseudepiphallus of the male genitalia of
T. mitratus
from Kadari often possessed an additional small bulge sub-apically that can be seen clearly in the lateral view. A similar bulge was observed by
Lu
et al.
(2018)
also in the specimens of
T. mitratus
.
Acoustic signal:
Dominant frequency of males calling song from IISERM, CC, and KAD is 3±0.2 kHz (mean ±SD); however, the number of syllables varied from 2–6 per chirp.
TABLE 1a.
Measurements of male
T. mitratus
collected from IISERM, CC, KER and KAD. Abbreviations listed in material and method section. Values in mm are Mean and Standard deviation in paratheses.
Male |
BL |
BL+HW |
FW_L |
PL |
PW |
26.6 (0.8) |
35.9 (1.3) |
17.1 (0.9) |
5.1 (0.3) |
7.6 (0.5) |
IISERM (n=5) |
FIII |
TIII |
FIII_W |
ML |
MW |
15.3 (1) |
12.2 (0.4) |
5.3 (0.4) |
4 (0.4) |
4 (0.3) |
BL |
BL+HW |
FW_L |
PL |
PW |
CC (n=5) |
26.2 (2) |
34.8 (1.5) |
16.5 (1.1) |
5 (0.3) |
7.5 (0.3) |
FIII |
TIII |
FIII_W |
ML |
MW |
15.5 (0.5) |
12.3 (0.4) |
5 (0.5) |
3.7 (0.3) |
3.9 (0.1) |
BL |
BL+HW |
FW_L |
PL |
PW |
KER (n=5) |
23.8 (2.1) |
32.3 (1.3) |
15.7 (0.4) |
4.8 (0.5) |
7.2 (0.4) |
FIII |
TIII |
FIII_W |
ML |
MW |
14.9 (0.8) |
11.5 (0.5) |
4.7 (0.3) |
3.7 (0.3) |
3.7 (0.3) |
BL |
BL+HW |
FW_L |
PL |
PW |
24.8 (1.6) |
32.5 (2.7) |
14.5 (3.5) |
5.1 (0.8) |
7 (0.3) |
KAD (n=10) |
FIII |
TIII |
FIII_W |
ML |
MW |
16 (1) |
12.4 (0.7) |
5.2 (0.3) |
3.5 (0.2) |
3.7 (0.2) |
TABLE 1b.
Measurements of female
T. mitratus
collected from IISERM, KER and KAD. Abbreviations listed in material and method section. Values in mm are Mean and Standard deviation in paratheses.
Female |
BL |
BL+HW |
FW_L |
PL |
PW |
29.9 (2.1) |
38 (0.6) |
17 (2.2) |
5.4 (0.3) |
8 (0.1) |
IISERM (n=5) |
FIII |
TIII |
FIII_W |
OVI_L |
17.5 (0.3) |
13.4 (1) |
5.7 (0.6) |
24.2 (0.6) |
BL |
BL+HW |
FW_L |
PL |
PW |
24 (1.1) |
31.7 (2) |
15.6 (0.9) |
4.8 (0.2) |
7.2. (0.2) |
KER (n=5) |
FIII |
TIII |
FIII_W |
OVI_L |
15.8 (0.5) |
12.6 (0.7) |
5 (0.3) |
21.5 (1.1) |
BL |
BL+HW |
FW_L |
PL |
PW |
KAD (n=5) |
25.3 (2.6) |
* |
13.3 (0.9) |
5.3 (0.2) |
7.2 (0.2) |
FIII |
TIII |
FIII_W |
OVI_L |
17.3 (0.9) |
13.5 (0.7) |
5.8 (0.4) |
21.1 (1.4) |
* HW of
T. mitratus
females collected from Kadari always shorter than their FW’s.