PODOSCIRTINAE Saussure, 1878

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 : 436

Subfamily PODOSCIRTINAE Saussure, 1878

REMARKS

As discussed in Anso et al. (2016a), several genera of Podoscirtinae have been described from New Caledonia, i.e. Adenopterus Chopard, 1951 , Peltia Gorochov, 1986a , Matuanus Gorochov, 1986a , Archenopterus Otte, 1987 , Calscirtus Otte, 1987 and Pixipterus Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016 . One species originating from the Loyalty Islands has been described in the genus Aphonoides Chopard, 1940 ( Otte et al. 1987), and later transferred to the genus Mistshenkoana Gorochov, 1990 ( Gorochov 1990) . Finally, Saussure (1878) described Tapinopus platyceps Saussure, 1878 from one female originating from New Caledonia, which status has not been clarified up to now: incertae sedis within Podoscirtinae ( Otte et al. 1987) , nomen dubium ( Otte 1994a), or transferred to the Australian genus Tambourina as nomen dubium ( Eades et al. 2016).

Otte et al. (1987) synonymized Peltia with Adenopterus , while Gorochov (2003) considered Archenopterus and Peltia as subgenera of Adenopterus . None of these groups are in fact clearly monophyletic (see Anso et al. 2016a). As no phylogenetic analysis including New Caledonian podoscirtines is available today, we will consider Adenopterus and Archenopterus as valid genera, as downgrading them as subgenera would just move the problem of their monophyly from one taxonomic level to another. We accept however the synonymy of Peltia with Adenopterus , as the male genitalia of Peltia roseola Gorochov, 1986 are very similar to those of Adenopterus species.

Molecular evidence attest the monophylies of Calscirtus and Matuanus , and the sistership relation of Adenopterus and Archenopterus (Chintauan-Marquier et al. 2013, 2016, and Fig. 17 ).

Figures

FIG. 17. — Phylogeny of the cricket clade (Orthoptera,Gryllidea),based on the Bayesian analysis of seven molecular markers (12S,16S,18S,28SA,28SD,H3,cytB) for 212 terminals.Branches of New Caledonian genera are marked with red, with the following genera missing: Metioche Stål,1877 (Trigonidiinae),Amonemobius Otte, 1987, Bobilla Otte & Alexander, 1983, Ignambina Otte, 1987, Ionemobius Otte, 1987, Kanakinemobius Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016, Orintia Gorochov, 1986 and Paniella Otte et al., 1987 (Nemobiinae), Pixipterus Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016, Aphonoides ouveus Otte, 1987 (Podoscirtinae), Pixibinthus Robillard & Anso, 2016 (Eneopterinae). Modified after Chintauan-Marquier et al. (2016). Species present in New Caledonia are indicated in red; genera present in New Caledonia with different species than those used in the phylogeny are indicated in purple. See A3 version on www.zoosystema.com