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
Proturana
Otte, 1987
Proturana
Otte
in
Otte
et al.
, 1987: 424
.
TYPE
SPECIES. —
Euscyrtus subapterus
Chopard, 1970
by original designation.
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Habitus:
Fig. 15A
. Male genitalia:
Otte
et al.
1987
: fig. 20B.
EMENDED DIAGNOSIS. — Size small. Body shape distinctively elongate and thin, this shape reinforced by a colour pattern with many longitudinal stripes; legs I and II contrastingly short compared to long legs III. Head dorsum and face both convex, at right angle. Eyes small but somewhat protruding, widely apart from each other. Fastigium flat, narrow and elongate. Second tarsomeres flat and wide. TI without inner and outer tympana; three apical spurs. TII with three apical spurs. TIII with three inner and three outer apical spurs; outer spurs very short; median and dorsal spurs subequal on outer side; dorsal spur the longest on inner side; six to nine inner and five outer subapical spurs present in TIII distal half, short. TIII serrulation strong in TIII distal two third, more numerous on outer side. Basitarsomeres III short, shorter than tarsomeres 3; with apical spines and sometimes a few spines on outer side only. Cerci very short; often convergent at mid length, and thick at base. Coloration pale, with several longitudinal lines prolonged on head, pronotum and body; a wide brown band running from eye to abdomen mid length through LL; legs light yellowish brown with light brown dots and lines.
Male.
FWs tiny, wider than long, partly overlapping; no stridulum, but a functional file made of very tiny teeth. HWs lacking in observed specimens. Subgenital plate long, pointing between cerci; lateral margins enveloping distally. Male genitalia: small; pseudepiphallic sclerite broadly triangular, distal margin raised and curved back on main sclerite; two turgescent and setose areas close to anterior margin; rami straight, strongly divergent; ectophallic fold wide and convex, separated from pseudepiphallic sclerite by a wide bilobated structure (fused pseudepiphallic parameres?).
Female.
FWs very short, only slightly projecting from beneath pronotum. Ovipositor long, flattened dorso-ventrally, distinctly curved upwards then downwards, without a distinct apex.
DISTRIBUTION. — Endemic to
New Caledonia
, known from Dumbea (
P. subapterus
), Sarramea and Bourail (MNHN material).
HABITAT. —
Proturana
lives on grass in opened forest.