Paraeumigus lopezi, Massa, Bruno, 2013

Massa, Bruno, 2013, Pamphagidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of North Africa: key to genera and the annotated check-list of species, Zootaxa 3700 (3), pp. 435-475 : 455

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3700.3.7

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5697574

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8A745511-5A05-4B39-A17E-15A7C0D2F700

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scientific name

Paraeumigus lopezi
status

sp. nov.

Paraeumigus lopezi View in CoL n. sp.

Material examined. Morocco, near Tamanar (South of Smimou), 30°58'40.09", 9°42'6.40" 24.I.2005, ♂ holotype, ♀ allotype, ♂ paratype, leg. Heriberto Lopéz (BMCP).

Among some specimens of Pamphagidae collected by the Spanish colleague Heriberto Lopéz in Morocco I found three small specimens whose characteristics are not matching with those of any described species; the locality where they were collected, next to the Atlantic coast, is far from any other housing Paraeumigus species, that till now were considered as typical mountainous elements.

Diagnosis. It is a small sized species (see Table 3), with moderately raised pronotum keel; body is laterally compressed.

Description. Antennae 15–16 (males) and 16- (female) segmented, shorter than head and pronotum together. Teguments are rather wrinkled, fore and hind borders of pronotum clearly protruding, pronotum posteriorly enlarged, with a central stout keel (not furrowed in the males, just furrowed in the female) and two lateral keels, more or less parallel ( Figs. 141, 143, 145 View FIGURES 123 – 148. 123 – 145 ). Pronotum keel in lateral view is just raised in the males, clearly raised in the female, gently interrupted by typical sulcus ( Figs. 141, 145 View FIGURES 123 – 148. 123 – 145 ). Central keel is visible also on the first segments of the abdomen. Tegmina are 2.4–2.5 longer than high and are more or less unicolor, with the upper part just clearer than lower one. Mesosternal space is 2.0 times wider than long, and metasternal space 2.5 times wider than long ( Fig. 155 View FIGURES 149 – 160 ). Krauss organ smooth. Prosternal process has an evident fore collar and two pointed hind tubercles ( Fig. 142 View FIGURES 123 – 148. 123 – 145 ). Aedeagus valves, from back view, have long and narrow lobes, enlarged at the apex; central columnar keels arrive to the apex, while the other two remain only in the basal part, which is as wide as long ( Fig. 144 View FIGURES 123 – 148. 123 – 145 ). In lateral view, aedeagus valves are apically flattened and pointed, the epiphallus shows ca. 35 small spines on the central sides ( Fig. 144 View FIGURES 123 – 148. 123 – 145 ).

Habitat. Specimens were collected in a plain with dispersed Argania trees and a high density of annual grasses.

Biological notes. The collector, H. Lopéz, found the specimens as nymphs; they were kept in a plastic container and were feeding with Plantago sp., mulberry, Rumex lunaria and lettuce. Every day, the container was revised to detect possible moulting, mating and/or song emissions. Males were adult on 16th March and 21st April, the female on 29th March. One male remained at the second nymph instar for 55 days and at the third instar for 11 days, the other male remained at the third instar for 50 days; the female remained at the third instar for 38 days and at the fourth instar for other 25 days. Mating occurred in the first days of May ( Fig. 161 View FIGURES 161 ).

Derivatio nominis. I gratefully name this species after Heriberto Lopéz, specialist of Orthoptera from Tenerife, who in the last years has published some valuable papers on endemic species of Pamphagidae of Canary Islands and collected and sent me a series of Moroccan interesting specimens.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

SubOrder

Caelifera

Family

Pamphagidae

SubFamily

Pamphaginae

Tribe

Pamphagini

Genus

Paraeumigus

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