Mecopoda sismondoi Heller, 2021

Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Baker, Ed, Ingrisch, Sigfrid, Korsunovskaya, Olga, Liu, Chun-Xiang, Riede, Klaus & Warchałowska-Šliwa, Elżbieta, 2021, Bioacoustics and systematics of Mecopoda (and related forms) from South East Asia and adjacent areas (Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea, Mecopodinae) including some chromosome data, Zootaxa 5005 (2), pp. 101-144 : 126

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5005.2.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5151097

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Mecopoda sismondoi Heller
status

sp. nov.

Mecopoda sismondoi Heller View in CoL sp. nov.

Holotype: male, labels: (1) Singapore [1°17′ N, 103°50′ E] 84 A, (2) Brit. Mus. 1985-242, (3) Molted to adult 28 I 84 gassed on 9 VI 84 , (4) COLLECTED BY E. SISMONDO (5) SONG-RECORDED (6) The stridulation of this specimen has been recorded. Tape No. 568 Recording No 1, (7) NHMUK010210931 About NHMUK . NHM. Song and stridulatory organs studied. GoogleMaps

Paratypes; males CH 3746, MALAYSIA: Selangor, Ulu Gombak Field Study Centre (20 km nno Kuala Lumpur) (3°20’N, 101°45’E), 260 m, 8–28 iii 1981, leg. K.-G. Heller & M. Volleth (song and stridulatory organs). CH GoogleMaps 3738, MALAYSIA: Selangor, Ulu Gombak Field Study Centre (20 km nno Kuala Lumpur) (3°20’N, 101°45’E), 260 m, 12–19 iv 1981, leg. K.-G. Heller & M. Volleth (song and stridulatory organs) (all CH) GoogleMaps .

Other material: Male CH7704, SOUTH EAST ASIA, exact locality unknown, obtained from breeder, 2013 (song, stridulatory organs, chromosomes). Males CH3751, CH 3645, CH3739, MALAYSIA: Selangor, Ulu Gombak Field Study Centre (20 km nno Kuala Lumpur) (3°20’N, 101°45’E), 260 m, 12–19 iv 1981 and 28 ii–24 iv 1984, leg. K.-G. Heller & M. Volleth. Six pairs of male tegmina CH3656, CH 3663, CH3666, CH 3687, CH3688, CH 3690 from the same locality GoogleMaps .

The song of the species is described by Sismondo (1990) ( SINGAPORE; as species S), by Korsunoskaya (2008) ( INDONESIA: Sumatra) and by Hartbauer et al. (2006; 2012) ( MALAYSIA).

Diagnosis. The species has a much slower echeme repetition rate than the other species of the subgroup (echeme periods about 3 s; Tab. 4 View TABLE 4 ).

Description. Morphologically no difference to other species of the M. confracta subgroup (Liu Cx et al. 2020).

Measurements (in mm): CH 3738, 3746: pronotum length 8.0–8.7; tegmen length 55–57; tegmen width 13; hind femora length 42.0–44.5.

In peninsular Malaysia, the species is often found syntopically with M. himalaya (our data, Tan & Kamaruddin 2016). It is typically a little bit smaller than himalaya and often brown, whereas himalaya is more often green.

Chromosomes: 2n = 29, FN = 52; pairs 1 metacentric and 4–7, 9, 10, 12–14 metacentric/ submetacentric, 3 subacrocentric, 2, 8 and 11 acrocentric, X chromosome submetacentric ( Fig. 15 View FIGURE 15 ).

Derivatio nominis. Named in honour of Enrico Sismondo who discovered the song diversity of Mecopoda , collected and recorded the type specimens of M. sismondoi and analyzed and described the signal interactions in that genus ( Sismondo 1990).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tettigoniidae

Genus

Mecopoda

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