Crickets of New Caledonia (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea): a key to genera, with diagnoses of extant genera and descriptions of new taxa
Author
Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure
Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) desutter @ mnhn. fr
desutter@mnhn.fr
Author
Anso, Jérémy
Institut de Systématique, Évolution et Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) and Institut méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Écologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Aix-Marseille Université, UMR CNRS, IRD, UAPV, Centre IRD Nouméa, BP A 5, 98848 Nouméa Cedex, (Nouvelle-Calédonie)
Author
Jourdan, Hervé
Institut méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Écologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Aix-Marseille Université, UMR CNRS, IRD, UAPV, Centre IRD Nouméa, boîte postale A 5, 98848 Nouméa Cedex (Nouvelle-Calédonie) Published on 30 December 2016
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Zoosystema
2016
2016-12-30
38
4
405
452
http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2016n4a1
journal article
10.5252/z2016n4a1
1638-9387
4578278
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9E796669-C345-42D6-B0F9-95288DB701EE
Genus
Cardiodactylus
Saussure, 1878
Cardiodactylus
Saussure, 1878: 657
.
TYPE
SPECIES. —
Platydactylus novaeguineae
de Haan, 1844
by subsequent designation (
Kirby 1906
).
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Habitus:
Fig. 15C
. Male genitalia:
Robillard & Ichikawa 2009
: fig.4. Calling song:
Robillard & Ichikawa 2009
: fig. 7.
DIAGNOSIS. — After
Robillard & Ichikawa (2009)
. Large, fusiform species, with long FWs, HWs and cerci in both sexes. Coloration variegated, with yellow, whitish, brown and black; palpi yellow to white, with or without a brown apical ring on joint 5. Eyes slightly protruding. Fastigium as wide as scape, thus relatively narrow compared to other eneopterine genera. Pronotum transverse. TI with an inner and an outer tympana.
Male.
Stridulum complete; harp longer than wide, with two strongly bisinuated, oblique veins; mirror well delimited, more or less clearly separated from apical field; apical field elongate with several cell alignments. Male genitalia: pseudepiphallic sclerite very long, greatly narrowed at mid length, setose laterally and ventrally, with two high dorsal crests partly fused dorsally; rami short and wide.
Female.
Ovipositor long, apex lanceolate and flattened laterally. Female genitalia: copulatory papilla with rounded sclerotized base and apex.
CALLING SONG. — The call of
C. novaeguineae
(de Haan, 1844)
is complex, with two different
types
of echemes. The dominant frequency is carried on the third harmonic (
Robillard & Ichikawa 2009
).
DISTRIBUTION. —
Cardiodactylus
is highly diversified in the western Pacific; it is known in
New Caledonia
by only
C. novaeguineae
, a widely distributed species in Oceania (
Robillard & Ichikawa 2009
).
HABITAT. —
Cardiodactylus novaeguineae
is restricted to opened forest in coastal areas, where it forages from afternoon to night on vegetation (
Robillard & Ichikawa 2009
).