Pepoyara

Bolfarini, Marcio P., Capellari, Renato S. & De, Francisco De A. G., 2012, Two new genera of Pteronemobiini crickets from the Brazilian Atlantic forest (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Trigonidiidae, Nemobiinae), Zootaxa 3478, pp. 19-31 : 25-26

Pepoyara de Mello & Capellari, gen. n.

(Figs. 0 6 to 09)

Type species: Pepoyara jagoi , sp. n.

Etymology. From the native South American Tupi-Guarani language, “mother of the water”,alluding to the likely close related genus, Amanayara de Mello & Jacomini (“the lord of the rain” in the same language).

Diagnosis. Both, male and female, winged. Auditory tympana present only on internal face of fore tibiae. Male ―hind tibiae with four dorso-external spurs, the uppermost and the lowest ones glandular; pseudepiphallus elongate, its lateral margins sinuose; proximo-dorsal margin of pseudepiphallus shaped as an open, inverted “V”, with a narrow vertex and a concavity at the point it merges to the rami (Fig. 08A); apical portion of pseudepiphallus with a pair of elongate, finger-shaped projections; pseudepiphallic parameres undeveloped; ectophallic apodemes with a pair of long, nearly straight rods without a noticeable arc; endophallic sclerite with median element partially surrounded by a pair of lateral ones. Ovipositor valves bearing teeth dorsally.

Description. Male ―Body coloration mostly brown. Head: oval in frontal view, the dorsum covered by short to median bristles; three ocelli present, forming a triangle above the insertion of the antennae; vertex covered by bristles until the insertion of the middle ocellus; scape very large; flagellum pilose, except for the base of first article. Maxillary palpi as long as head height. Thorax: pronotum slightly broader than head in dorsal view, anterior and posterior margins densely covered by large bristles, which extend to the laterals, inferior margin of lateral lobes slightly concave; fore wings extending to abdominal tergites 5–6, mirror present, bearing a tiny dividing vein on posterior left corner (Figs. 06A, 09A), stridulatory vein with ca. 90 teeth, apical field short but with a row of large cells, chordal area with four veins, lateral field with 4 parallel longitudinal veins. Hind wings vestigial, very small. Legs: fore tibiae with auditory tympanum on inner face only, 1 apical spur; middle tibiae with 3 apical spurs; hind tibiae: with four internal dorsal spurs being the superior one glandular (as in all Pteronemobiini ) and the inferior one bearing a large ventral gland (as in Amanayara ), and four external spurs; three apical spurs present on either side, the superior the longest on internal face (median and superior with a fringe of bristles, Fig. 07F). Phallic Complex: pseudepiphallus elongate, its lateral margins sinuose; proximal dorsal margin shaped as an open “V” with narrow vertex, and concave sides; distal dorsal margin as a broad invagination with acute, but shallow, vertex and concave sides; distal portion with a pair of elongate, finger-shaped projections; pseudepiphallic parameres undeveloped; ectophallic apodemes long, nearly straight rods without a noticeable arc; endophallic sclerite with median element partially surrounded by a pair of lateral ones. Female ―Similar to male, with the following exceptions: fore wings shorter, longitudinal veins connected to one another by transversal veinlets; ovipositor short, the apical valves with conspicuous teeth dorsally.