Studies on chevron crickets: Contribution to the knowledge of Lutosinae / ini taxa (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae)
Author
Cadena-Castañeda, Oscar J.
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Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Grupo de Investigación en Artrópodos “ Kumangui ”. ojccorthoptera @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5646 - 0602
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Author
García, Alexander García
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Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Grupo de Investigación en Artrópodos “ Kumangui ”. ojccorthoptera @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5646 - 0602 & agarciag @ udistrital. edu. co; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9905 - 003 X
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Author
Nos, Maria Del Pilar Castella-
0000-0003-3551-4370
Universidad INCCA de Colombia. Grupo en Ecología Evolutiva y Biogeografía Tropical ECOBIT. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3551 - 4370
Author
Sarmiento, Juan Pablo Prias
0000-0002-5602-3370
Universidad INCCA de Colombia. Grupo en Ecología Evolutiva y Biogeografía Tropical ECOBIT. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5602 - 3370
Author
Tavares, Gustavo Costa
Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB), Av. Augusto Correa # 1 66075 - 110, Belém, PA, Brazil. Grupo de Estudos de Artrópodes da Amazônia (GEAA).
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-08-29
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Lutosinae
/
Lutosini
It is necessary to define the subfamily or tribe
Lutosinae
/ini. But, for this, it is necessary to have additional specimens from other nearby groups to corroborate the affiliation and define additional characters to those provided by
Gorochov (2001a)
. For now, the Neotropical genera are the ones that should be included in
Lutosini
, sharing a morphology in terms of the organization of the last abdominal tergites and the hooks. These morphological characters are far different from the anatomy of the species of Old-World genera, such as
Libanasa
Walker, 1869
and
Papuaistus
Griffini, 1911
. Indeed, for us, these Old-World genera should be relocated to other suprageneric taxa in future contributions. In this way,
Lutosinae
/ini would have a Neotropical distribution, and be morphologically close to
Anostostomatinae
/ini, in contrast to the other tribes of the family.
In recent years, contributions to the different genera of American
Lutosini
have been made, and there is a good definition of the genera and species, with detailed data on the morphology of the terminalia and, in most cases, the internal genitalia:
Apotetamenus
(
Cadena-Castañeda & Cortés-Torres 2013
)
,
Hydrolutos
(contributions by Derka & Fedor),
Lutosa
Walker, 1869
(
Morselli 2006
,
2010
,
Heleodoro & Mendes 2016
),
Neolutosa
(
Gorochov 2001a
)
,
Rhumosa
(
Hugel & Desutter-Grandcolas 2018
)
, and
Tintiyakus
(
Mendes
et al
. 2020
, Mendes & Heleodoro, 2021).
Licodia
is an exception, it is poorly studied, and the last contribution to the genus was made by
Rehn (1930)
. Details of the male terminalia and internal genitalia are unknown, and additional species may need to be described from its Greater Antilles range.
In the particular case of
Lutosa
, more emphasis was given in this contribution, to better understand the morphology and definition of
Lutosini
. Its distribution was restricted to the Atlantic Forest, between
Brazil
,
Argentina
and
Paraguay
, but here firstly recorded to Amazon. As a result of this contribution,
Lutos
a remains with ten species:
L. anomala
,
L. brasiliensis
,
L. cubaensis
,
L. goeldiana
,
L. imitata
,
L. marginalis
,
L. normalis
,
L. paranensis
L. quaresmai
n. sp.
and
L. morsellii
n. sp.
It is evident that many more species must be described from the Atlantic Forest, so it is important that
Morselli (2010)
publish his thesis and formally made available the diversity of species in the genus. We have additional species to describe, but on this occasion, we abstain from publishing or describe them, so as not to affect the magnificent work of Morselli. Here we only describe
L. quaresmai
n. sp.
and
L. morsellii
n. sp.
, having the certainty that it does not coincide in any taxon of the author’s thesis. Outside of the Atlantic Forest, it is possible the existence of additional undescribed species. Currently representatives of these possible new species are only known from females recorded for
French Guiana
(
Karny 1935
) or Colombian Amazon, with females from Colombian entomological collections. We prefer to wait to find males of the Amazonian or Guyanese representatives, to certify that they are
Lutosa
or if they are a morphologically similar genus such as
Neolutosa
or
Rhumosa
, that their females are identical to those of
Lutosa
.