Lebinthus luae Robillard & Tan, 2013

Bahoy, Daphne Cayle M., Sabang, Aira Mae M., Tan, Ming Kai, Nuñeza, Olga Macas & Robillard, Tony, 2024, A new species and new records of the subtribe Lebinthina (Grylloidea, Eneopterinae, Lebinthini) from Mindanao, Philippines, Zootaxa 5507 (1), pp. 167-178 : 174-175

Lebinthus luae Robillard & Tan, 2013

( Figs 5C, 5D , 6 )

Lebinthus luae Robillard & Tan, 2013: 705 (original description); Tan, 2013: 298 (record in mangroves in Singapore); Tan & Robillard, 2014: 375 (key to Eneopterinae species in Singapore); ter Hofstede et al., 2015: 2 (communication system); Baroga et al., 2016: 94 (taxonomic key); Tan, 2017: 4; Fung et al., 2018: 44 (major prey of common palm civet); Barago-Barbecho et al., 2020: 412 (diversity in Philippines); Tan & Robillard, 2021a: 1 (response to COVID-19 lockdowns); Tan et al., 2021: 1076 (phylogeny); Tan & Robillard, 2021b: 473 (circadian rhythm); Ballesteros et al., 2022: 1 (phenotypic plasticity of calling song); Tan et al., 2022: 245 (potential as human food); Tan et al., 2023: 1 (circadian rhythm).

Lebinthus sp. : Tan, 2010: 246; Tan, 2012: 4; Tan & Wang, 2012: 315; Tan et al., 2012: 66; Robillard et al., 2013: 2003 (sound generation system).

New material examined. PHILIPPINES: • 1♀; Zamboanga Del Norte, Dapitan City, Jose Rizal Memorial Protected Landscape ; N8.667861, E123.416889, 36 m.a.s.l.; 21 December 2023; open area in secondary forest, found in leaf litter; leg. D.C. Bahoy & A. M. Sabang; 023.2; PNM

Remarks. This widely distributed species is found to occur in Mindanao for the first time—including the main Mindanao Island and Siargao Island ( Fig. 6 ).

Measurements. See Table 1 .

Figures

FIGURE 5. Lebinthus parvus Baroga-Barbecho et al., 2020 male habitus (A, B) and Lebinthus luae Robillard & Tan, 2013 female habitus (C, D) in dorsal (A, C) and lateral (B, D) views. Scale bar: 5 mm.

FIGURE 6. Lebinthus luae Robillard & Tan, 2013 in their natural environment in Siargao Island, Mindanao: male adult (A), young juvenile (B) and male subadult (C).