New taxa and records of Gryllacrididae (Orthoptera, Stenopelmatoidea) from South East Asia and New Guinea with a key to the genera
Author
Ingrisch, Sigfrid
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-11-05
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4510.1.1
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Eugryllacris sulcata
sp. nov.
Figs. 5E, 5K
,
8
E–F, 9J
Material examined.
East
Malaysia
:
Sabah
, Mt. Kinabalu, Poring, elev.
500–700 m
(
6°5'N
,
116°33'E
),
1– 31.vii.1992
, leg. K. Riede—
1 female
(
holotype
) (Bonn ZFMK).
Diagnosis.
E. sulcata
can be recognized by the deeply furrowed face (
Fig. 5E
), but especially characteristic are the shapes of the female seventh abdominal sternite and the subgenital plate (
Figs. 8
E–F). The seventh sternite is rounded disc-shaped except for the truncate basal margin, flat and without apical projection; also the subgenital plate is flat with a rather long membranous base, afterwards triangular but with truncate apical margin. This situation resembles somewhat the condition in Philippine
Eugryllacris
species as
E. inversa
sp. nov.
and
E. maculipennis laticauda
(
Karny, 1925a
)
. Both species also have a triangular subgenital plate with truncate tip and the seventh sternite without a medial projection with apex simply rounded in
E. sulcata
instead of slightly bilobate in
E. inversa
.
Description.
Large species (
Fig. 5K
). Head: Face wide ovoid; fastigium verticis about twice as wide as scapus; ocelli visible, especially median ocellus, but not very striking; fastigium frontis separated from fastigium verticis by a very fine suture; a pair of very strong sub-antennal furrows, starting at internal angle of antennal scrobae, separates central area of face from lateral areas and fuse ventrally with clypeo-frontal suture; clypeo-frontal suture interrupted in middle; subocular furrows also very distinct; clypeus with a fine transverse furrow below about basal third (
Fig. 5E
). Abdominal tergites two and three with few minute stridulatory pegs.
Wings reaching or little surpassing middle of stretched hind tibiae (
Fig. 5K
). Tegmen: Radius with two branches, both forked near tip; media anterior fused in basal area with radius; media posterior absent; cubitus anterior forks before mid-length into two veins, CuA1 and CuA2; cubitus posterior undivided, free throughout; with 5 anal veins.
Legs: Fore coxa with a spine at fore margin; fore and mid femora unarmed; fore and mid tibiae with four pairs of large, on mid tibiae comparatively short, ventral spines and one pair of smaller ventral spurs; hind femur with 8– 10 external and 5 internal spines on ventral margins.
Coloration. General color green when alive; vertex unicolored; disc of pronotum unicolored, hind margin hardly darker. Legs of general color. Face almost unicolored, probably green when alive; clypeo-frontal furrows black connected by a dark brown line. Tegmen semi-transparent with green veins; area behind radius faintly infumate in basal half to two thirds; hind wing semi-transparent with green or brown veins and veinlets; cells with large dark brown spots.
Male unknown.
Female. Seventh abdominal sternite with apical margin as whole prolonged to cover base of subgenital plate; roughly appearing as a round disc with truncate base (
Figs. 8
E–F). Subgenital plate in about about basal third membranous except for sclerotised margins; with strongly approaching lateral margins; apex subtruncate, faintly concave (
Fig. 8F
). Base of ovipositor with a small sclerite before base of ventral valves. Ovipositor of medium length, distinctly but not strongly curved dorsad, margins slightly and gradually narrowing towards tip; dorsal margin with a slight expansion before tip (
Fig. 9J
).
Measurements (
1 female
).—body w/wings: 53; body w/o wings: 40; pronotum: 8.5; tegmen: 40; tegmen width: 19; hind femur: 19; antenna: 125; ovipositor:
17 mm
.
Etymology.
The new species is named for the deeply furrowed face; from Latin
sulcus
(furrow).