New taxa and records of Gryllacrididae (Orthoptera, Stenopelmatoidea) from South East Asia and New Guinea with a key to the genera
Author
Ingrisch, Sigfrid
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-11-05
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10.11646/zootaxa.4510.1.1
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Capnogryllacris
Karny, 1937
Cyanogryllacris
Karny, 1937
syn. nov.
Type
species:
Locusta fumigata
De
Haan, 1842
Type
species of
Cyanogryllacris
:
Gryllacris grassii
Griffini, 1912b
Discussion.
Species of the genus
Capnogryllacris
were formerly split over five genera
Borneogryllacris
,
Capnogryllacris
,
Cyanogryllacris
,
Dictyogryllacris
, Erythrogryllacris,
Marthogryllacris
(
Karny 1937
)
, mainly based on color pattern of the wings.
Gorochov (2003)
regarded
Borneogryllacris
as synonym of
Capnogryllacris
while
Liu, Bi & Zhang (2010)
and Li
et al
(2014) treated
Borneogryllacris
as subgenus of
Marthogryllacris
. Later,
Gorochov
et al
. (2015a)
treated
Borneogryllacris, Erythrogryllacris
and
Marthogryllacris
as synonyms under the subgenus
Capnogryllacris
and kept only
Dictyogryllacris
as valid subgenus. In this paper another genus,
Cyanogryllacris
,
is added to the synonymy of the subgenus
Capnogryllacris
.
The
type
species of
Cyanogryllacris
Karny, 1937
is
Gryllacris grassii
Griffini, 1912
. According to the original description and illustration given by
Griffini (1912b)
, the tegmen of
C. grassii
shows the typical color pattern of species similar to
C. borneoensis
(
Haan, 1842
)
,
type
species of
Borneogryllacris
: a large black spot at base encircling a transparent oval spot. Shape and venation of tegmen are very similar to a female of
C. borneoensis
in NHMW except that M and RS are not temporarily fused as shown by
Karny (1924a)
but only leaning at each other. Regarding the blue color of that spot (name giving for the genus
Cyanogryllacris
)
Karny (1924a)
writes (translated from German): "With »cyaneus« he [
Griffini 1912b
] understands black with beautiful blue metallic luster, not azure". There is thus no doubt that
Gryllacris grassii
Griffini 1912b
is congeneric with
C. borneoensis
.
Borneogryllacris
was synonymised by
Gorochov (2003)
with
Capnogryllacris
and later (
Gorochov
et al
. 2015a
) even regarded as synonym of the subgenus
Capnogryllacris
. As a consequence,
G. grassii
should also be transferred to
Capnogryllacris
. As it is the
typus
generis and the only species included,
Cyanogryllacris
becomes a new synonym of
Capnogryllacris (Capnogryllacris)
.