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 text 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 Caltathra Otte, 1987 Caltathra Otte in Otte et al., 1987: 414 . TYPE SPECIES. — Caltathra panaki Otte, 1987 by original designation. ILLUSTRATIONS. — Habitus: Fig. 2C . Male genitalia: Desutter- Grandcolas 2002 : figs 1-6, 9-13. FIG. 2. — New Caledonian Phalangopsidae Blanchard, 1845 : A , Protathra centralis Desutter-Grandcolas, 2014 , from Aoupinié, by night (modified from Desutter- Grandcolas et al. 2014 ); B , Parendacustes lifouensis Desutter-Grandcolas, 1997 , male, from Lifou (Loyalty Islands); C , Caltathra amiensis Desutter-Grandcolas, 1997 ,from Col d’Amieu,by night (Photo PG); D , Pseudotrigonidium noctifolia Desutter-Grandcolas,1997 ,from Col d’Amieu,by night (Photo PG).Scale bars:5 mm. EMENDED DIAGNOSIS. — After Otte et al. (1987) and Desutter- Grandcolas (1997b , 2002 ). Size medium. Male and female apterous. Coloration variegated yellow, brown and black. Head small and vertical; fastigium longer than wide, not separated from vertex by a transverse furrow; eyes protruding. Face yellow and brown; a wide longitudinal yellow band between median ocellus and clypeus distal margin. Pronotum large, transverse; LL anterior angles raised dorsally. TI with or without an inner tympanum; without an outer tympanum; with two, ventral, apical spurs. TII with three apical spurs, ventral inner spur the longest, dorsal outer spur missing. FIII without a thin apical part. TIII with three or four inner, and four outer subapical spurs; with few spines above and between subapical spurs; with three inner and three outer apical spurs, dorsal spur the longest on inner side, median spur the longest on outer side. Basitarsomeres III very long; two rows of few, small dorsal spines. Male. Metanotum, tergites and subgenital plate without glandular structures. Subgenital plate short, truncated apically; with an apical longitudinal furrow.Male genitalia small and compact; pseudepiphallic sclerite and rami well-developed; pseudepiphallic sclerite with a median process; ectophallic dorsal valves well-developed and sclerotized, their inner side thickly sclerotized with a variable tooth; ectophallic fold small and membranous; ectophallic arc incomplete; dorsal cavity small. Female. Ovipositor shorter than FIII. Female genitalia: copulatory papilla very small; squared in dorsal view, triangular in lateral view, its distal margin sinuous, its base wider or not than the apex. DISTRIBUTION. — Endemic to New Caledonia . HABITAT. — Forest-dwelling species active on tree trunks at night.