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
Paniella
Otte, Alexander & Cade, 1987
Paniella
Otte, Alexander & Cade, 1987: 411
.
TYPE
SPECIES. —
Pronemobius apterus
Chopard, 1915
by subsequent designation by
Otte (1994a)
.
Ignambina oubatchia
Otte, 1987
erroneously mentioned as
type
species of
Paniella
in
Otte
et al.
(1987)
.
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Habitus:
Fig. 4D
;
Anso
et al.
2016a
: fig. 36. Male genitalia: none (LDG, pers. obs.).
DIAGNOSIS. — Small
Nemobiinae
with distinctly variegated coloration, with yellow, orange, brown and black; legs yellowish brown both dark marks and rings. Maxillary palpi short; joints 4 and 5 yellow or white; joint 5 very short and wide. Eyes small, not protruding, the distance between epistemal suture and lower margin of eye nearly equal to eye mid width. TI lacking both inner and outer tympanum; two long, ventral apical spurs. TII with three apical spurs.TIII with three pairs of short subapical spurs; three apical spurs on each side; median spur the longest on outer side; dorsal spur the longest on inner side, about half as long as basitarsomere III.
Males.
Apterous. Male genitalia: Pseudepiphallic sclerite short and wide, more or less rounded; partly sclerotized dorsally, but membranous anteriorly to apical lobes; laterally more sclerotized. Pseudepiphallic apical lobes short but well-separated from one another, membranous. Dorsal cavity small; endophallic sclerite with a thin and elongate median part, and two larger lateral parts, extended anteriorly by a thin and long sclerotization. Ectophallic fold extended laterally.
Females.
Apterous; ovipositor shorter than FIII; dorsal valves with crenulated apex.
DISTRIBUTION. — Endemic to
New Caledonia
.
HABITAT. —
Paniella
lives in rainforest. Many specimens deposited in the MNHN collection have been collected by fogging of trees and logs, while others have been collected by night high on tree trunks or on understorey plants.