New Acrididae from Oaxaca State in Mexico (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididae Ommatolampinae, Melanoplinae)
Author
Fontana, Paolo
Author
Buzzetti, Filippo Maria
Author
Mariño-Pérez, Ricardo
text
Zootaxa
2011
2862
39
55
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.206593
007b4176-febb-42a0-9d0d-e375b9356caa
1175-5326
206593
R. amedegnatoae
n. sp.
Diagnosis.
See diagnosis of genus.
Hind
margin of last male abdominal tergite with three dark knobs. Male supragenital plate with four dark knobs as in
Fig.34
.
Male description.
See genus description. Phallic complex: epiphallus well sclerotized, bridge almost straight, anterior process: globose, rounded, prominent lophi with anterior portion forming a black subtriangular rounded inward directed point (fig. 48); dorsal valvae well sclerotized, dark, short, expanded laterally, complex, rugose, subtrapezoidal in a dorsal view, with anterior outer margin concave and involving laterally ventral ones; ventral valvae a little longer than dorsal, smooth, semicircular and with expanded rounded apex (
Figs. 55–56
).
Female description (
Fig. 2
).
See genus description. Ovipositor valvae with dark pointed curved tip. Cerci small conical. Supragenital plate triangular, longitudinally grooved in the middle.
FIGURES 1–2.
Reyesacris amedegnatoae
n. sp.
, live specimens in nature. 1: male; 2: female.
Male measurements (5).
Body length 18.0–20.0 (18.64; 0.78); pronotum length 2.8–3.1 (2.96; 0.13); prozona length 1.9–2.1 (1.98; 0.11); metazona length 0.9–1.0 (0.98; 0.04) and hind femur length 9.3–10.6 (9.74; 0.49).
Female measurements (5).
Body length 24.3–28.0 (25.35; 1.50); pronotum length 4.0–4.4 (4.22; 0.16); prozona length 2.6–3.0 (2.81; 0.14); metazona length 1.3–1.5 (1.41; 0.10) and hind femur length 12.3–14.7 (13.24; 0.96).
Type
material.
Male
holotype
:
Mexico
, Oaxaca, Pluma Hidalgo W, Portillo del Rayo,
1492 m
. (
15°58’57’’ N
;
96°31’12’’W
).
17.XI.2008
, Legit P. Fontana, F.M. Buzzetti and R. Mariño-Pérez; same data, female Allotype and 4
paratypes
(
3 males
and
1 female
);
Mexico
, Oaxaca, Pluma Hidalgo (pueblo),
1340 m
. (
15°55’32’’ N
;
96°25’10’’W
),
17.XI. 2008
, Legit P. Fontana, F.M. Buzzetti and R. Mariño-Pérez,
1 female
paratype
;
Mexico
, Oaxaca, Portillo del Rayo, carr. # 175, km 184, 1465 m. (
15°58’58,1’’ N
;
96°31’13,3’’W
),
30.IV.2008
, Legit F.M.
Buzzetti,
7 males
and
1 female
paratypes
;
Mexico
, Oaxaca, Between Pluma Hidalgo and Herradura, km 11/
12, 681 m
, (
15°52’57,4’’ N
;
96°23’41,2’’W
), Legit F.M. Buzzetti,
1 male
and
1 female
paratypes
;
Mexico
, Oaxaca, Pluma Hidalgo W,
1175 m
,
17.XI.2008
(
15°56’23’’ N
;
96°25’46’’W
), Legit P. Fontana, F.M. Buzzetti and R. Mariño- Pérez,
6 males
and
1 female
paratypes
.
Type
depository.
male
Holotype
, female Allotype and two male
paratypes
,
CNIN
;
5 male
and
2 female
paratypes
,
CPF
;
10 male
and
3 female
paratypes
,
CFMB
.
Etymology.
the species is dedicated to Christiane Amedegnato (sadly passed away in
June 2010
), Researcher at CNRS and responsible for the Caelifera collection at the Muséum national d´Histoire Naturelle, Paris,
France
. Christiane Amedegnato intensively studied Neotropical
Orthoptera
, and kindly helped us in studying this new genus, up to her last days.