Pseudonicsara (Cercana) lita ( Hebard, 1922 )

Ingrisch, Sigfrid, 2009, Revision of the genus Pseudonicsara Karny, 1912 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae: Agraeciini) 2185, Zootaxa 2185, pp. 1-122 : 56-57

Pseudonicsara (Cercana) lita ( Hebard, 1922)

Figs. 146, 244, map 4.

Salomona lita Hebard 1922: 233 ; Otte 1997, Orthoptera Species File 7:35; OSF online 2009.

Pseudonicsara lita Karny 1926: 225 .

Holotype (male): Indonesia, Moluccas, Obi Island [1° 30' S, 127° 45' E], depository: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, USA ( ANSP) [not seen].

Diagnosis. P. lita is similar to P. nana , P. hum , and P. spinibranchis in that the male tenth abdominal tergite has the apex deeply excised in middle. It differs by the apical lobes of the tenth abdominal tergite being finger-shaped, curved and acute ( Fig. 146); the subgenital plate has the apical margin broad, nearly truncate; the styli are widely spaced; the cercus has two baso-internal and two apico-internal processes, the basal with dorsal process heavy, blunt, cylindrical, the ventral process elongate, sigmoid with acute apex; of the apical processes is the dorsal process larger than the ventral, both curved inwards ( Fig. 244).

Description from Hebard (1922), shortened for general generic characters and femoral spines:

"Head comparatively narrow, but with face and genae heavily impresso-punctulate and occiput weakly rugulose; vertex very slenderly lamellate produced, straight, with apex in lateral aspect rounded. Tegmina and wings showing some reduction, extending a short distance beyond apices of caudal femora. Ultimate tergite produced caudad in two fingers which are slightly convergent, then curve outward weakly near their acute apices, showing throughout a broad convexity dorsad; area between these is evenly curved, forming more than a semicircle proximad. Cerci very large and heavy; shaft with internal surface oblique and flattened from proximo-median point to apex, bearing proximo-mesad on its ventral margin an elongate, sigmoid process with apex acute, above which is a heavy, blunt, cylindrical process; apex of cercus with a large dorso-external and a smaller ventro-internal tooth, both of these curving inward. Subgenital plate with lateral margins weakly convergent to the broad and weakly undulate, transverse caudal margin; styles at slightly produced apices of latero-caudal angles, small, cylindrical, four times as long as proximal width."

Femora with the following number of spines on ventral margins: fore femur 6 external, 6 internal; mid femur 6 external, 2 internal near base; hind femur 11–13 external, 4–5 minute internal in basal area.

"General coloration shining ochraceous-buff tinged with ochraceous-tawny. Fastigium of vertex neva green. Face below eyes deepening to russet, with large triangular median portion deepening to prouts brown, the clypeus almost wholly covered by two suffusions of blackish chestnut-brown, the labrum ochraceous orange, the mandibles blackish chestnut-brown. Antennae with first two joints of the general coloration, elsewhere uniform ochraceous tawny. Tegmina transparent, of the general coloration, with veins and veinlets warm buff, except in marginal field where they are paler, pale buff. Limbs of the general coloration, all spines russet; genicular areas of cephalic and median femora faintly washed with green; cephalic tibiae with a fleck of dark brown dorsad at the apex of the auditory foramina."

Measurements (of male): body 29, pronotum 8.9, tegmen 23.2, hind femur 15.7 mm.