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
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.