Orthoptera (Ensifera & Caelifera) collected using carrion traps in a Quercus forest in Jalisco, Mexico, with description of a new genus and a new species (Trigonidiidae: Nemobiinae)
Author
Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J.
Author
Rodríguez, William David
Author
Navarrete-Heredia, José L.
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-01-25
4550
3
401
415
journal article
27474
10.11646/zootaxa.4550.3.7
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Stenopelmatus
sp. 1
(
Fig. 3C
)
Commonly known as "boyish" or Jerusalen Crickets (
Weissman, 2005
), are peculiar
Orthoptera
with fossorial habits, eyes narrowed, abdomen inflated and separated from the thorax by a small pedicel (
Cadena-Castañeda & Torres, 2013
) are the closest group to rolling leaf crickets or gryllacridines (
Song
et al
., 2015
; Vandergast
et al
., 2018). To date there are 20 valid pecies of
Stenopelmatus
Burmeister
; discontinuously distributed from
Canada
to
Costa Rica
(
Burmeister, 1838
;
Gorochov & Cadena-Castañeda, 2016
; Cigliano
et al.
2018). For
Mexico
there are registered
S. lycosoides
Walker
,
S. calcaratus
Griffini
and
S. lessonae
Griffini
(no precise location);
S. guatemalae
Brunner von Wattenwyl
(
Chiapas
, but also registered to
Guatemala
and
Nicaragua
).
S. histrio
Saussure
and
S. minor
Saussure
, (
Veracruz
);
S. nietei
Saussure
, (
Veracruz
,
Hidalgo
,
Tamaulipas
and
Coahuila
);
S. longispinus
Brunner von Wattenwyl (
Sinaloa
)
;
S. talpa
Burmeister
, (initially without precise locality but recently recorded by
Gorochov & Cadena-Castañeda, 2016
, for the states of
Oaxaca
, State of
Mexico
and
Veracruz
) and
S. fuscus
Haldeman
, which is registered for the northeast Mexican territory. However, the photographs of
S. fuscus
found in reports in which the species is reported, such as those of
Berumen
et al
. (2006)
and
Barrientos-Lozano
et al
. (2013)
do not confirm? to the original description and most likely were erroneously identified, like the previous two publications, the record for this species in
Mexico
is doubtful (
Weissman, 2001
;
Gorochov & Cadena-Castañeda, 2016
; Cigliano
et al
., 2018).
These individuals were collected from May to December. Females were trapped the most in carrion traps. The morphospecies studied here is very similar to
S. minor
Saussure
by its small size and black color, according to
Weissman (2001)
. Numerous species await description by Dr. David Weissman, commenting only that only on the east coast of the
United States
there may be about 50 undescribed species morphologically similar. Species of
Stenopelmatus
live under the sand or soil (lowland species and semi-desert areas) but almost nothing is known about the species that inhabit the mountains, some individuals of this morphospecies were seen in galleries or decaying logs, are omnivorous habits and subjected to stress can become cannibalistic. At the request of Dr. David Weissman this species is not described.