New species of small scaly crickets of genus Micrornebius (Orthoptera: Mogoplistidae; Mogoplistinae) from Singapore
Author
Tan, Ming Kai
text
Zootaxa
2014
3895
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117
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3895.1.7
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Micrornebius kopisua
Tan & Ingrisch, 2013
(
Fig. 2
)
Micrornebius
sp.—
Ingrisch, 2006
: 178
Micrornebius kopisua
Tan & Ingrisch, 2013
—
Tan & Ingrisch, 2013
: 19
New material examined.
2 males
:
Singapore
:
1 male
, near Central Catchment Nature Reserve, along Venus Trail, secondary forest, coll. M. K. Tan,
25 July 2014
;
1 male
(
CIL
.02.3.03, in alcohol), Central Catchment Nature Reserve, MacRitchie forest, near MacRitchie Nature Trail, disturbed forest, on leaf litter, coll. M. K. Tan, H. Yeo & R. W. J. Ngiam,
31 August 2014
.
Remarks.
Type
material along with new material were examined for comparison with the other
Micrornebius
species.
Life history.
Unlike the other
Micrornebius
species described here,
Micrornebius kopisua
tends to inhabit the leaf litter among leaves and plant parts near the ground (
Fig. 2
). They were not found to be hiding underneath tree bark so far.