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
Amusurgus
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
Amusurgus
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893: 212
.
TYPE
SPECIES. —
Amusurgus fulvus
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
by monotypy.
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Habitus:
Fig. 3B
;
Otte & Alexander 1983
: figs 149, 150. Male genitalia:
Otte & Alexander 1983
: fig. 152.
EMENDED DIAGNOSIS. — After
Otte & Alexander (1983)
for
Australia
and material from
New Caledonia
preserved in MNHN. Head dorsum not flat between eyes. TI with a wide inner tympanum; outer tympanum grooved. FWs hairy; flat in lateral view. HWs well developed but shorter than FWs. TIII with three pairs of long and thin alternate subapical spurs; only five relatively short apical spurs, ventral inner spur lacking.
Male.
Dorsal gland on abdomen. No stridulatory device. Subgenital plate large, distal margin bisinuate. Male genitalia: distal pseudepiphallic median lobes well developed and divergent; lateral lobes dejected latero-ventrally, as long or longer than median lobes (see
Otte & Alexander 1983
: fig. 152); pseudepiphallic parameres small.
Female.
FWs developed as in males. Ovipositor: distal margins of dorsal and ventral valves feebly crenulated (see Otte & Alexan- der 1983: fig. 153).
DISTRIBUTION. — Mostly diversified in South
East Asia
and Oceania (see
Eades
et al.
2016
); reported here for the first time from
New Caledonia
(
Loyalty islands
).