A new species of the genus Gestroana (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae: Cladonotinae) from New Guinea
Author
Tan, Ming Kai
John T. Huber
Author
Storozhenko, Sergey Yu.
John T. Huber
Author
Robillard, Tony
John T. Huber
text
Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
2016
209
141
148
journal article
1243-4442
Genus
GESTROANA
Berg, 1898
Gestroa
Bolívar, 1898:68
(nomen preoccupied by
Gectroa
Pini,
1876 in
Mollusca).
Gestroana
Berg, 1898: 42
(new name for
Gestroa
Bolívar, 1898
) –
Hancock 1907: 18
;
Kirby 1910: 11
;
Blackith 1992:81
;
Yin
et al.
1996: 872
;
Otte 1997: 21
;
Tumbrinck 2014: 361
(diagnosis), 371 (key to species).
Type
species.
Gestroa discoidea
Bolívar, 1898
, by monotypy.
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
—
Gestroana
is most similar to the genera
Tondanotettix
Willemse, 1928
(two species from Sulawesi Island) and
Cladonotella
Hancock, 1909
(four species from New
Guinea
and Java) but it differs from former in the straight lower side of the lateral lobes of the posterior process of the pronotum (in
Tondanotettix
, the lower side strongly curved) and from latter in the antennae situated considerably below the lower margins of the eyes,
i.e.
more than one diameter of an antennal socket (in
Cladonotella
, the antennae are situated slightly below the lower margin of eyes,
i.e.
less than half of diameter of an antennal socket) (
Tumbrinck 2014
).
COMPOSITION
— The genus consists of 16 species endemic to New
Guinea
, one of which is described below.