Description of two new species of Turanogryllini crickets (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Gryllinae) from Cameroon, with identification keys for African species
Author
Nyobe, Philene Corinne Aude Um
University of Yaounde 1, Faculty of Science, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Cameroon.
phicoraude@yahoo.fr
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Robillard, Tony
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2177-9549
Institut de Systematique, Evolution, Biodiversite (ISYEB), Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, SU, EPHE, UA, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Author
Kekeunou, Sevilor
University of Yaounde 1, Faculty of Science, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Cameroon.
Author
Ma, Libin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8556-7158
College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710119, China.
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Nzike, Marcelle Mbadjoun
University of Yaounde 1, Faculty of Science, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Cameroon.
Author
Bilong, Charles Felix Bilong
University of Yaounde 1, Faculty of Science, Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, Cameroon.
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Journal of Orthoptera Research
2022
2022-06-01
31
1
83
89
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.31.73389
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.31.73389
1937-2426-1-83
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Genus
Neogryllopsis Otte, 1983
Type species.
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Neogryllopsis zomba
Otte, 1983.
Diagnosis.
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Males.
Head and pronotum orange-brown on dorsum, ivory-colored on sides and venter, abdomen banded with dark brown and ivory on dorsum. Dorsum of head without longitudinal stripes, sometimes with transverse light and dark bands. Face and cheeks ivory colored. FWs: Dorsum brown to gray-brown, lateral field pale; vein 1A strongly raised above level of stridulum; harp with 5 or 6 veins (rarely 4); harp veins attached indirectly to the distal half of the stridulum through a series of small veinlets; stridulum with small short setae arranged along both sides of the file; diagonal vein bent close to chords. Hind wings absent in males. Abdomen medium to dark brown, with pale segmental margins, and tergites becoming pale on sides of body. Inner tympanum absent on TI; outer tympanum present, large. FIII with distinct or indistinct oblique rows of medium brown spots in middle of inner and outer surfaces. TIII 0.63-0.68 times as long as FIII; with 4 or 5 inner and 4 to 6 outer subapical spurs. Cerci very pale.
Females.
Similar in coloration to males. Apterous. Ovipositor as long as or longer than FIII.