Bullita Gorochov, 1986

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 : 418

Genus Bullita Gorochov, 1986

Bullita Gorochov, 1986a: 693 .

Synonymized with Bobilla Otte & Alexander, 1983 by Otte et al. (1987); synonymy invalidated by Desutter-Grandcolas (1997b).

Fikola Gorochov, 1986a . Type species Fikola fusca Gorochov, 1986 . Synonymy in Desutter-Grandcolas (1997b).

TYPE SPECIES. — Bullita pacifica Gorochov, 1986a by original designation.

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Habitus: Figs 1H , 4A ; Anso et al. 2016a: fig. 27. Male genitalia: Desutter-Grandcolas 1997c, figs 1, 2, 4, 5; Anso et al. 2016a: fig. 28. Calling songs: Anso et al. 2016a: figs 29-31.

EMENDED DIAGNOSIS. — Small Nemobiinae with uniform coloration, body dark brown and legs ochre (black brown in Bullita obscura Anso & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016a ), tergite VIII or IX bordered with white in females and males; females with additional white transverse bands on abdomen and FWs; male FWs with light yellow lateral margins. Eyes large but little protruding; distance between epistemal suture and lower margin of eye less than eye mid width. TI with a wide inner tympanum, without outer tympanum; two long, ventral apical spurs. TII with three long apical spurs. TIII with four pairs of long subapical spurs, getting longer toward TIII apex; three apical spurs on each side; median spur the longest on outer side; dorsal spur the longest on inner side, nearly as long as basitarsomere III.

Male. FWs covering almost whole abdomen; stridulum with file and harp. Male genitalia: Pseudepiphallic sclerite elongate, more or less triangular; pseudepiphallic apical lobes longer than pseudepiphallic parameres. Dorsal cavity wide and high; endophallic apodeme very high. Ectophallic fold unspecialized.

Female. FWs very short, only partly overlapping; venation on lateral field only, made of three longitudinal parallel veins; lateral field slightly longer than dorsal field, the limit between dorsal and lateral fields made by a short and thick vein, present distally only; ovipositor shorter than FIII; dorsal valves with crenulated apex.

DISTRIBUTION. — Endemic to New Caledonia.

HABITAT. — Straminicolous species living only in forest vegetation (see Anso 2016).

Figures

FIG. 1. — Details of morphological characters: A, B, Tarsomeres 2 in Amusurgus sp. (Trigonidiinae) (A), and in Kanakinemobius mandjelia Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016 (Nemobiinae) (B); C-E, head dorsum in Notosciobia minoris Anso & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016 (Gryllinae) (C), frontal view, Pseudotrigonidium ana Anso & Desutter-Grandcolas,2016 (D), and Protathra centralis Desutter-Grandcolas, 2014 (Phalangopsidae) (E), frontal (D) and fronto-lateral (E) views; F, G, Male FWs in Koghiella flammea Anso & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016 (Nemobiinae) (F), and Protathra gigantea Desutter-Grandcolas, 1997 (G); H-J, habitus female of (H) Bullita fusca Gorochov, 1986 (Nemobiinae), (I) Koghiella flammea (Nemobiinae), and (J) Kanakinemobius mandjelia; K, male genitalia of Koghiella flammea, dorsal view; L, Tarsal claws of Anaxipha sp. (Trigonidiinae), frontal view; M, Male tegminal gland in Adenopterus octolineatus Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016 (Podoscirtinae); N, Tegminal pubescence in Amusurgus sp. Scales bars: 1 mm.

FIG. 4. — New Caledonian Nemobiinae (Trigonidiidae):A, Bullita transversa Desutter-Grandcolas, 1997,Col d’Amieu, by day (Photo PG); B, Bobilla sp., specimen from Parc Provincial de la Rivière Bleue; C, Koghiella flammea Anso & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016, from Bois du Sud, by day (Photo JA); D, Paniella bipunctatus Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016, female, from Grand Kaori; E, Paora sp., specimen from Dzumac; F, Thetella sp., from Lifou (Loyalty Islands), by day (Photo PG); G, uplifted calcareous substrate where Thetella sp lives, Loyalty Islands (Photo PG). Scales bar: 1 mm.