Revision of the genera Habetia Kirby, 1906 and Parahabetia gen. nov. from New Guinea (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Conocephalinae, Agraeciini)
Author
Ingrisch, Sigfrid
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-08-12
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2
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5020.2.1
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Habetia spada
(Brunner v.
Wattenwyl, 1898
)
Figs 1A
,
3G
,
5A
, Map 1(1).
Holotype
(female):
Papua New Guinea
,
Madang
,
Konstantinhafen
[= Enke Port, the label reads “Konstantinshafen Deutsch-Neuguinea”], (
5°30’S
,
145°56’E
), coll. BrW. 20.597—depository:
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
(
NMW
).
Diagnosis.
H. spada
differs from other species by the shape of the female subgenital plate that is flattened and has the lateral margins not markedly upcurved, the apical margin is wide-triangularly incised and the spines at apico-lateral angles are nearly rectangularly upcurved. The females from Toricelli Mountains that Karny identified as
H. spada
, however, differ significantly from the
type
of
H. spada
by the shape of the subgenital plate despite of the general similarity between both taxa as described below under
H. pedala
sp. nov.
, which has a domed subgenital plate while in
H. spada
it is flattened.
Description.
Index fastigium verticis: eye diameter 1.70:
1.96 mm
. Coloration of face of light general color; mandibles fully black; antennal scrobae and tip of fastigium frontis light brown (
Fig. 3G
). Femora with the following number of spines on ventral margins: Femur spines: (1) a 6 p 8; (2) a 7 p 3; (3) a 12–14 p 13–14.
Male unknown.
Female. Subgenital plate rather flat with converging lateral margins and with a medial furrow; at posterior-lateral angles with up-bent, acute cones; apical margin between cones wide, triangularly incised (
Fig. 5A
). Ovipositor about one and half time as long as body; behind basal constriction straight with dorsal valves in basal half only faintly convex (
Fig. 1A
).
Measurements (
1 female
).—Body w/o wings: 42; pronotum: 9.3; tegmen: 38; hind femur: 28.5; ovipositor length:
63 mm
.