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
Pseudotrigonidium
Chopard, 1915
Pseudotrigonidium
Chopard, 1915: 152
.
TYPE
SPECIES. —
Pseudotrigonidium sarasini
Chopard, 1915
by original designation.
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Habitus:
Fig. 2D
;
Otte
et al.
1987
: fig. 21 (under
Tremellia
);
Anso
et al.
2016a
: fig. 5. Male genitalia:
Otte
et al.
1987
: fig. 24 (under
Tremellia
); Desutter-Grandcolas 1997a: figs 18-19 (under
Tremellia
). Calling song:
Anso
et al.
2016a
: fig. 4.
Male.
Two stridulum conditions: 1) Stridulum complete and functional; harp with four or five oblique, parallel veins, the most distal one concave; mirror crossed by two parallel veins. CuP present and short; and 2) Stridulum lacking, in micropterous (a file sometimes present) and apterous species. Subgenital plate long, narrow and high. Male genitalia: pseudepiphallic sclerite very elongate (except in
P. aptera
Desutter-Grandcolas, 1997
and
P. ana
Anso & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016
); pseudepiphallic parameres well-developed, lateral, making wide, often indented plates; arc complete and wide; ectophallic apodemes short; ectophallic fold often hyperthelic, extending dorsally between pseudepiphallic lateral parts; endophallic sclerite U-shaped, most often elongate; endophallic apodeme crestlike; no dorsal cavity.
Female.
FWs rounded, with thick longitudinal and transversal veins. Ovipositor short to very short; valve apex thick and rounded, with teeth. Female genitalia: copulatory papilla very small, annular with thicker anterior part.
DISTRIBUTION. — Diversified in Oceania and Indomalaysia. In
New Caledonia
,
Pseudotrigonidium
is known throughout the whole Grande Terre; it is not yet reported from the
Loyalty Islands
.
HABITAT. —
Pseudotrigonidium
inhabits the understorey of forest vegetation, where its is active at night. Winged males are often found singing under the leaves of
Pandanus
or treeferns.
Pseudotrigonidium
hides during the day either in plant structures, such as inside the stems of dead fern leaves, or in the leaf litter and dead plant material accumulated at the base of tree trunks.