Small crickets of New Zealand (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Trigonidiidae and Mogoplistidae), with the description of two new genera and species
Author
Hegg, Danilo
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2024
2024-09-09
955
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1
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https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2655/12275
journal article
10.5852/ejt.2024.955.2655
2118-9773
13742408
5D22E144-EF73-4085-9774-E853EEEC6001
Genus
Austronemobius
gen. nov.
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Type
species
Austronemobius chelatus
gen. et sp. nov.
Etymology
From the Latin
‘
austrālis
’ (adj.), ‘southern’,
Austronemobius
means ‘Southern
Nemobius
’.
Austronemobius
is male gender.
Diagnosis
Medium-sized
Nemobiinae
, with body length between 5 and
8 mm
. Forewings, hindwings and tympana absent in both sexes. Head small, about as tall as it is wide in frontal view, with large, bulging eyes. Pronotum patterned, with three glabrous, raised areas either side of the median line. Tibia III with three subapical spurs on both inner and outer edges in both sexes. Length of outer ventral apical spur on Tibia III approx. 80% to 90% that of inner ventral apical spur. Outer apical spur on Tarsomere III-1 long, approx. 80% that of inner apical spur. Male genitalia with long, external, articulated pseudepiphallic parameres, modified for clasping (
Fig. 19
). Ovipositor with lateral valves dotted by numerous, small tubercles at the apex.
Habitat and ecology
Nocturnal,
Austronemobius
crickets live in moss and in damp leaf litter in forest habitat.