Phalangopsidae crickets from the Indian Region (Orthoptera, Grylloidea), with the descriptions of new taxa, diagnoses for genera, and a key to Indian genera
Author
Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure
Author
Jaiswara, Ranjana
text
Zootaxa
2012
3444
1
39
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.209049
1b0168b2-ae68-45ec-beb4-801ba2a90c3d
1175-5326
209049
Larandopsis
Chopard, 1924
Larandopsis
Chopard, 1924
: 86
.
Type
species.
Larandopsis choprai
Chopard, 1924
Other species included.
Two additional species were described from New
Guinea
,
Larandopsis jharnae
Bhowmik, 1981
and
L. newguineae
Bhowmik, 1981
. According to Bhowmik’s (1981) descriptions and illustration, these species do not belong to
Larandopsis
, but to the eneopterine genus
Lebinthus
Stål, 1877
(fastigium more than twice as wide as the scape, outer tympanum « prominent, elongated, oval », inner tympanum very narrow, elongate; FW venation as in
Fig. 1
B in
Bhowmik 1981
).
Distribution.
Assam.
Diagnosis.
According to
Chopard (1924
,
1969
): Size small. Fastigium as wide as the scape. Maxillary palpi with very long joint 5. Legs rather long. TI with inner tympanum. FIII rather short. TIII with four pairs of subapical spurs, the inners longer than the outers; three inner apical spurs, the median and dorsal spurs very long, the dorsal the longest, as long as metatarsus; three outer apical spurs, very short, the median about twice as long as the other two. Cerci as long as the body. FWs and HWs present in both sexes. Colouration (juvenile specimens, with a yellow line on brown tergites): Face yellowish with a median brownish band; pronotum dorsal disc brownish with an irregular whitish band and a large, more or less rounded, yellowish spot on each side; lateral lobes fuscous with a small yellow spot; legs yellowish with brown bands.
Remark.
Chopard (1969)
considered that
Larandopsis
, which has been defined using juvenile specimens, should be close to
Luzaropsis
Chopard, 1925
from
Sri Lanka
(see below).
Habitat.
Found in caves (
Chopard 1969
).