Dianemobius fascipes fascipes ( Walker, 1869 )

He, Zhixin, Zhang, Tao & Ma, Libin, 2021, Crickets of subfamily Nemobiinae Saussure, 1877 (Orthoptera: Grylloidea; Trigonidiidae) from China with descriptions of new genera and new species, Zootaxa 5011 (1), pp. 1-70 : 12-13

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Dianemobius fascipes fascipes ( Walker, 1869 )
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Dianemobius fascipes fascipes ( Walker, 1869) View in CoL

( Figs. 7–9 View FIGURE 7 View FIGURE 8 View FIGURE 9 )

Eneoptera fascipes Walker, 1869: 67

Cyrtoxipha fascipes, Kirby, 1906: 81 View in CoL

Nemobius fascipes, Wu, 1929: 25

Pteronemobius fascipes, Chopard, 1932: 1 View in CoL

Dianemobius fascipes, Vickery, 1973: 419 View in CoL

Dianemobius fascipes fascipes, Kim & Pham, 2014: 62 View in CoL

Materials examined. China: 10 males & 6 females, Shaanxi, Foping, Daheba , vii-20-2019, Libin Ma & Zhixin He coll. ( SNNU) .

Description. Male. Body size small. Head small, slightly wider than the anterior of pronotum. Rostrum slightly wider than antennal scape. Ocelli round, median ocellus largest of the three. Eyes rather large. Postclypeus transverse wide, middle part widened and lateral part narrowed; anteclypeus slightly narrowed. Apical joint of maxillary palpi distinctly longer than the third, depressed and widened, with rounded apex; apical joint of labial palpi rodlike, longer than remainder sections, depressed and widened. Pronotum transverse wide, trapezoid; anterior margin straight and the posterior somewhat convex, posterior margin wider than the anterior, and lateral edges slightly concave medially. Tegmen reaching abdominal apex, apical region degraded. Tympana absent. Hind tibia bearing three dorsal spurs and three apical spurs on both sides respectively.

Genitalia. Middle part of epiphallus slightly narrower, lateral part somewhat wider. Ectoparamere not exceeding median lobe of epiphallus.

Female. Similar to male. Ovipositor straight and long, somewhat shorter than cercus; acute apically, armed with large dorsal valves and small ventral valves.

Coloration. Body grey and ornamented with brown patterns. Ovipositor colored reddish brown with lateral median line dark brown.

Measurements (mm). Male (n=10). BL5.26±1.31, HW1.96±0.54, PL1.18±0.36, TL 3.87±0.69, HFL 4.21±1.20. Female (n=6). BL 6.67±1.21, HW 1.73±0.41, PL 1.36±0.51, TL 2.98±1.13, HFL 4.36±1.39, OL 2.69±0.55.

Chopard, L. (1932) Dr. E. Mjoberg's zoological collections from Sumatra. Arkiv for Zoologi, 23 A (9), 17.

Kim, T. W. & Pham, H. T. (2014) Checklist of Vietnamese Orthoptera (Saltatoria). Zootaxa, 3811 (1), 53 - 82. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3811.1.3

Kirby, W. F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae), 2 (i - viii), 1 - 562.

Vickery, V. R. (1973) Notes on Pteronemobius and a new genus of the tribe Pteronemobiini (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Nemobiinae). Canadian Entomologist., 105 (3), 419 - 424. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 105419 - 3

Walker, F. (1869) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum, 1, 1 - 224.

Wu, C. F. (1929) A list of species of crickets from the China coast. Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Fukien Christian University, 2, 25 - 26.

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FIGURE 7. D. fascipes fascipes. Habitus (alive) in field. A. Male. B. Female.

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FIGURE 8. Habitus photographs of D. fascipes fascipes. A. Male. B. Female. Scale bar: 2 mm.

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FIGURE 9. Male genitalia of D. fascipes fascipes. A. Dorsal view. B. Lateral view. C. Ventral view.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Trigonidiidae

Genus

Dianemobius