Caltathra Otte, 1987

Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, Anso, Jérémy & Jourdan, Hervé, 2016, Crickets of New Caledonia (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea): a key to genera, with diagnoses of extant genera and descriptions of new taxa, Zoosystema 38 (4), pp. 405-452 : 412-414

Genus Caltathra Otte, 1987

Caltathra Otte in Otte et al., 1987: 414.

TYPE SPECIES. — Caltathra panaki Otte, 1987 by original designation.

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Habitus: Fig. 2C . Male genitalia: Desutter- Grandcolas 2002: figs 1-6, 9-13.

EMENDED DIAGNOSIS. — After Otte et al. (1987) and Desutter- Grandcolas (1997b, 2002). Size medium. Male and female apterous. Coloration variegated yellow, brown and black. Head small and vertical; fastigium longer than wide, not separated from vertex by a transverse furrow; eyes protruding. Face yellow and brown; a wide longitudinal yellow band between median ocellus and clypeus distal margin. Pronotum large, transverse; LL anterior angles raised dorsally. TI with or without an inner tympanum; without an outer tympanum; with two, ventral, apical spurs. TII with three apical spurs, ventral inner spur the longest, dorsal outer spur missing. FIII without a thin apical part. TIII with three or four inner, and four outer subapical spurs; with few spines above and between subapical spurs; with three inner and three outer apical spurs, dorsal spur the longest on inner side, median spur the longest on outer side. Basitarsomeres III very long; two rows of few, small dorsal spines. Male. Metanotum, tergites and subgenital plate without glandular structures. Subgenital plate short, truncated apically; with an apical longitudinal furrow.Male genitalia small and compact; pseudepiphallic sclerite and rami well-developed; pseudepiphallic sclerite with a median process; ectophallic dorsal valves well-developed and sclerotized, their inner side thickly sclerotized with a variable tooth; ectophallic fold small and membranous; ectophallic arc incomplete; dorsal cavity small. Female. Ovipositor shorter than FIII. Female genitalia: copulatory papilla very small; squared in dorsal view, triangular in lateral view, its distal margin sinuous, its base wider or not than the apex.

DISTRIBUTION. — Endemic to New Caledonia.

HABITAT. — Forest-dwelling species active on tree trunks at night.

Figures

FIG. 2. — New Caledonian Phalangopsidae Blanchard, 1845: A, Protathra centralis Desutter-Grandcolas, 2014, from Aoupinié, by night (modified from Desutter- Grandcolas et al. 2014); B, Parendacustes lifouensis Desutter-Grandcolas, 1997, male, from Lifou (Loyalty Islands); C, Caltathra amiensis Desutter-Grandcolas, 1997,from Col d’Amieu,by night (Photo PG);D, Pseudotrigonidium noctifolia Desutter-Grandcolas,1997,from Col d’Amieu,by night (Photo PG).Scale bars:5 mm.