Xulavuna de Mello & Campos, 2014

Oya, Beatriz Harumi Kondo, Santos, Luiz Augusto Padilha, Fernandes, José Antônio Marin & Tavares, Gustavo Costa, 2024, Contributions to Odontogryllini (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Landrevinae) with comments on its taxonomic status and description of a new species of Xulavuna de Mello & Campos, 2014, Zootaxa 5424 (2), pp. 203-213 : 205

Genus Xulavuna de Mello & Campos, 2014

Comments. Gorochov (2023) mentions that Xulavuna is possibly a subgenus of Odontogryllus , justifying that the genitalia are very similar. However, Xulavuna has two pairs of Ps.P, each bifurcated and heavily modified with setae and projections. Odontogryllus , on the other hand, has only a single pair of Ps.P, which is much simpler and can be bilobed or not. Gorochov (2023) also comments that Xulavuna males have an additional gland in the first abdominal tergite. However, this is a characteristic that only occurs in Yarrubura (and not Jarrubua as the author mentions). Gorochov was probably confused because details of the glandular tegmina of Xulavuna and the tergal gland of Yarrubura are shown together in Figure 14 of Campos & de Mello’s (2014) work. Furthermore, despite Campos & de Mello (2014) commenting that Xulavuna males have no metanotal gland and the pseudepiphallus is bilobed (in dorsal view, the pseudepiphallus is enlarged posteriorly, forming two wide lobes), once these conditions occur in X. adenoptera , the new species presented below has metanotal glands and the pseudepiphallus is not bilobed.