Studies in Mexican Grasshoppers: Four new species of Reyesacris Fontana Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2011 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Ommatolampidinae)
Author
Mariño-Pérez, Ricardo
0000-0002-0566-1372
pselliopus@yahoo.com.mx
Author
Sanabria-Urbán, Salomón
Author
Pocco, Martina E.
0000-0002-3966-4053
martinapocco@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar
Author
Foquet, Bert
0000-0003-1643-6522
bert.foquet@gmail.com
Author
Song, Hojun
0000-0002-0566-1372
pselliopus@yahoo.com.mx
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-09-17
5039
4
518
536
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5039.4.4
1175-5326
5516017
F1612814-C749-4F8E-8330-36061C859F4F
5.
Reyesacris tika
sp. nov.
Mariño-Pérez, Sanabria-Urbán, Pocco, Foquet, & Song
Figs. 2E & F
,
7
,
10
,
12C
Diagnosis.
Hind margin of 10
th
abdominal tergite with three large dark knobs. Male supra-anal plate with 2 + 2-3 large dark knobs. Sclerotized surrounding areas of lophi of epiphallus ovoid in dorsal view. Dorsal margin of the sheath of aedeagus slightly rounded in lateral view, fused with dorsolateral projections of the dorsal aedeagal valves forming an apical groove. Short aedeagal valvae, almost covered by the sheath of aedeagus; apex of dorsal valves with anterior outer margin directed ventrally, involving laterally ventral ones.
FIGURE 7.
Reyesacris tika
sp. nov.
A.
Male terminalia, dorsal view.
B.
Epiphallus, dorsal view, posterior downwards.
C.
Epiphallus, anterior view, dorsal downwards.
D.
Ecto + Endophallic complex, dorsal view.
E.
Ecto + Endophallic complex, left lateral view. Arrows in
D
and
E
indicate key characteristics of sheath of aedeagus and aedeagal valvae. Scale bar 250 μm.
Male description
(
Fig. 2E & F
).
External genitalia
(
Fig. 7A
). Cerci triangular with internal spine in the basal half. Margin of 10
th
abdominal tergite thickened and forming three black projections. Supra-anal plate triangular with dilated margins. Four to five large knobs in a 2 + 2-3 pattern.
Internal genitalia
(
Fig. 7B–E
).
Epiphallus
(
Fig. 7B & C
). Well sclerotized, bridge almost straight, anterior projections globose and rounded. Ancorae triangular. Lophi prominent with an anterior portion and surrounding areas well sclerotized. Ovoid shape of this sclerotized area from dorsal view. Lateral plates poorly developed. Posterior projections enlarged. Oval sclerites semi-triangular.
Ecto + Endophallus complex
(
Fig. 7D & E
).
Ectophallus.
Apodemes of cingulum elongated. Zygoma welldeveloped. Rami well-developed. Sheath of aedeagus folded at tip with dorsal margin slightly rounded in lateral view. This dorsal margin fuses with the lateral-dorsal projections of the dorsal valvae of aedeagus forming an apical groove evident in lateral view of ectophallus.
Endophallus.
Apodemes of endophallus laterally compressed, arch of aedeagus elevated (“L shaped, in lateral view). Dorsal valvae well sclerotized, with dorsolateral quadrated projections (“anterior margins nearly perpendicular to body axis). Apex of the dorsal valvae with anterior outer margin directed ventrally and involving laterally ventral ones. Ventral valvae a little longer than dorsal ones, semicircular and with expanded rounded apex. Both valvae almost covered by sheath of aedeagus.
Female description.
Cerci small conical and supragenital plate semi triangular.
Etymology.
The specific epithet is referring to the name given by local people to grasshoppers in Mixteco language.
Male measurements (4).
Pronotum length 3.41–3.61 (3.49; 0.09); tegmen length 2.47–3.35 (2.95; 0.36); hind femur length 9.85–10.32 (10.07; 0.21).
Female measurements (1).
Pronotum length 4.93; tegmen length 3.79; hind femur length 13.08.
Male
holotype
.
Mexico
,
Oaxaca, San Isidro Paz y Progreso. L
22-2018. 1365 m
(
17.0734°N
;
97.837°W
)
.
30- X-2018
. Legit Sanabria-Urbán, Jiménez-Arcos.
CAFESI
.
Additional type material.
Five males and
one female
(adults) and
five males
and
five females
(nymphs) same data as above.
UMMZ
,
CAFESI
.
Geographic distribution.
Only known from
type
locality (
Fig. 11
), which is found in the
Mixtec region
, along the external versant of the
Sierra Madre del Sur
near the boundaries between
Oaxaca
and
Guerrero
states.
This
species al also found in mid-elevations in association mainly with tropical mountainous and cloud forests vegetation
.