Biogeographical and evolutionary aspects of a Guineo-Congolian bushcricket tribe: Revision of the genera Cestromoecha Karsch, 1893 and Poreuomena Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878, with the description of new species (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae)
Author
Hemp, Claudia
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9170-7113
Dept Plant Systematics, Univ. of Bayreuth, Germany
claudia.hemp@uni-bayreuth.de
Author
Massa, Bruno
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2127-0715
Dept of Agriculture, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Italy
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Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift
2021
2021-01-05
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.68.60193
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.68.60193
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Poreuomena tshuapa
sp. nov.
Figs 97-100
Material examined.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
,
Tshuapa
,
Bokungu
1949,
M. Dupuis
(
Holotype
♂
)
;
same data as holotype (
Paratype
♂
)
;
Democratic Republic of the Congo
,
Haut-Lopori
V-VI 1927,
J.
Ghesquiere
(
Paratype
♂
)
(MRAC).
Diagnosis.
Similar in the outer male genitalic apparatus to
P. magnicerca
from further west in the Congo Basin. Differentiated from
P. forcipata
and
P. laeglae
by a different 10th abdominal tergite which is clearly divided into two lobes in
P. forcipata
, while
P. tshuapa
sp. nov. only has small humps and the posterior margin of the 10th abdominal tergite of
P. laeglae
is more-or-less straight.
P. forcipata
has male cerci differentiated into two branches, an outer rather blunt, finger-like part and an inner blade-like expanded branch with an acute tip, similar to the inner branch of
P. tshuapa
sp. nov. and
P. magnicerca
. However,
P. tshuapa
sp. nov. has an additional branch just below the finger-like part of the cerci, absent in
P. forcipata
, but also present in
P. magnicerca
(also see diagnosis at
P. laeglae
). In
P. magnicerca
, the blade-like subapical section or the
"third"
branch is more roundish and larger than in
P. tshuapa
sp. nov. and the subgenital plate differs between these two species. In
P. tshuapa
sp. nov., the subgenital plate is bilobate with the processes clearly separated, while in
P. magnicerca
, the lobes of the subgenital plate are shorter and situated more closely to each other. Further, in
P. forcipata
and
P. laeglae
, asymmetrical spines are present on the left side of the supra-anal plates.
Description.
Male.
Probably predominantly green when alive, preserved specimens of tawny colour (Fig.
97
). Where tegmina meet when folded, interior part of cells of dark colour while surrounding and elevated veins green/tawny. Typical
Poreuomena
species with Rs branching off from the radius near the base. The tegmina have two typical well-developed flaps at their base, the flap on the left side smaller and more pointed than the flap on the right tegmen. Beneath the flaps, tegmina with narrow longish brown markings are typical for several
Poreuomena
species. The stridulatory file on the left tegminal flap is about 1.5 mm long with small broadly-spaced inner teeth becoming gradually larger and are more densely set (Fig.
98
). The last third consists of very densely packed teeth becoming smaller again; the apical part is strongly curved. All-in-all, the stridulatory file consists of about 70-80 teeth. Stridulatory file on the underside of the right tegmen not as well-developed, but similar in shape and size and arrangement of the teeth. The 10th abdominal tergite has almost a straight posterior margin with only two bump-like structures laterally (Fig.
99
). The cerci are stout, divided at their apical part into three branches: a subapical blade located just beneath the second elongated, finger-like branch and an inner blade-like or leaf-like expanded branch with sclerotised margins (Figs
99
,
100
). The subgenital plate is elongated and deeply divided into two lobes; without styli (Fig.
100
). Between the subgenital plate and the cerci, two longish internal structures are present (titillators).
Female.
Unknown.
Measurements
(mm)
. Males (n = 3). Body length: 17.7-18.2; pronotum length: 3.8-4.1; length hind femora: 20.3-21.2; length of tegmina 29.6-30.4; width of tegmina: 4.6-5.0.
Distribution.
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tshuapa Province.
Figures 97-100.
Morphological details of male
Poreuomena tshuapa
sp. nov. Habitus (
97
), stridulatory file on the underside of the left tegminal flap (
98
), different views on apex with cerci (
99, 100
).