Review of the species of the genus Marthogryllacris (Orthoptera, Gryllacrididae, Gryllacridinae)
Author
Li, Miaomiao
School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China. Email: kaili @ admin. ecnu. edu. cn & Shanghai Entomology Museum, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China. E-mail: liuxianwei 2008 @ 163. com Corresponding author
Author
Fang, Yan
School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China. Email: kaili @ admin. ecnu. edu. cn
Author
Liu, Xianwei
Shanghai Entomology Museum, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China. E-mail: liuxianwei 2008 @ 163. com Corresponding author
Author
Li, Kai
School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China. Email: kaili @ admin. ecnu. edu. cn
text
Zootaxa
2014
2014-12-01
3889
2
277
288
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3889.2.6
1175-5326
4952367
B1A5B72C-834C-4DF4-AA75-2E4CE1136730
8.
Marthogryllacris (Borneogryllacris) spinosa
Li, Liu
et
Li
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 27–29
)
Description.
Male. Body median sized. Fastigium of vertex long-ovate, about 2 times as wide as scape. Frons smooth; eyes long-oval, prominent. Fore margin of pronotum projected, hind margin straight. Tegmina rather extending beyond the apex of abdomen, half-transparent; R with 4 branches at apex, not united with M at base; Rs occurred at the middle of R, with 3 branches. Wings transparent, slightly longer than tegmina. Fore and mid tibiae with 5 pairs of spurs, mid tibia without intero-apical spur above. Hind femur armed with 7–8 spines on each side of ventral surface, hind tibia with 6–7 internal and 6-7 external spines on dorsal surface. 9
th
abdominal tergite split into two spine-like lobes (
Fig. 28
); subgenital plate short, broader than long; styli almost as long as subgenital plate, cylindrical.
Female. Subgenital plate narrower at apex, with slightly truncate posterior margin (
Fig. 29
). Ovipositor straight, slightly longer than hind femur, apex blunt.
Coloration.
Body yellowish brown, ocelli and antennae yellowish. Lateral and hind margins of pronotum, spurs and spines of all legs blackish.
FIGURES 27–29.
Marthogryllacris (Borneogryllacris) spinosa
Li, Liu, Li
sp. nov.
27. end of male abdomen, lateral view; 28. end of male abdomen, ventral view; 29. subgenital plate of female, ventral view; scale bars=1mm.
Measurements.
(length in mm)
Body Pronotum Tegmina Hind femur Ovipositor
♂
27.0–32.0 6.0–8.0 30.0–34.0 16.2–18.5 /
♀
25.0 7.0 28.0 17.0 18.5
Material.
Holotype
♂
, Zhushitoulinchang, Dayong, Hunan,
China
,
1988.VI.15
, collected by
Liu Zu-Yao
;
paratype
1♂
,
Hongtan
,
Guangxi
,
China
,
1979.VII.28
, collector unknown;
1♂
,
Liluo
,
Longsheng
,
Guangxi
,
China
, Alt.
1000m
,
1984.VI.20
, collected by
Li Jun
;
1♀
,
Fanjingshan
,
Guizhou
,
China
,
2001.VII.28
, collected by
Shi
Fu-
Ming
;
1♂
,
Fanjingshan
,
Guizhou
,
China
,
2001.VII.30
, collected by
Shi Fu-Ming
;
1♂
,
Huayanding
,
Emei Mountain
,
Sichuan
,
China
, Alt.
1900m
,
2011.VII.20
, collected by
Huang Hao
;
1♂
,
Maoer Mountain
,
Xing’an
,
Guangxi
,
China
,
2012.VII.23–24
, collected by
Bi Wen-Xuan
;
1♂
♀
,
Maoer Mountain
,
Xing’an
,
Guangxi
,
China
,
2012.VII.30–VIII.2
, collected by
Liu Xian-Wei
et al
..
Distribution.
China
(
Hunan
,
Sichuan
,
Guangxi
,
Guizhou
).
Diagnosis.
This new species appears to be closely related to
M.
(
B.
)
elongata
Li, Liu
et
Li
sp. nov.
, but its antenna is absolutely infuscate; also the apex of lobes of 9
th
abdominal tergite spine-like are not paralleled in it.