Parametrypa Brunner-Wattenwyl, 1873

Gorochov, A. V., 2021, Taxonomy of Podoscirtinae (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Part 13: new taxa of the subtribe Podoscirtina from Africa, Zoosystematica Rossica (Zoosyst. Rossica) 30 (1), pp. 64-77 : 73-74

Genus Parametrypa Brunner-Wattenwyl, 1873

Parametrypus Saussure, 1878 (unjustified emendation)

Type species: Nessa fortipes Walker, 1869 ; “Natal” in South Africa .

Remarks. The type species of the genus Nessa Walker, 1869 as well as Parametrypa aculeata Saussure, 1878 are from South America. They obviously belong to another genus or other genera. At the same time, P. spiculata Saussure, 1878 , also described from “Natal”, belongs to Parametrypa and even was synonymised with P. fortipes by Kirby (1906), but here it is restored from this synonymy as a subspecies of the latter species. Exclusion of P. viettei Chopard, 1958 from the genus Parametrypa was grounded above (see the above paragraph about the generic composition of Podoscirtina ). Here I describe three new species in this genus.

Diagnosis. Main features of Parametrypa are as follows: body from moderately small to moderately large, apterous, without tympana; head ( Figs 29, 32, 35, 41, 44 ) more or less high for this subfamily, with eyes roundly triangular and not large, ocelli from small to indistinct, and palpi similar to previous genera of Podoscirtina considered here; pronotum ( Figs 29, 32, 35, 41, 44 ) almost as wide as long or slightly transverse, with moderately high lateral lobes having horizontal (barely rounded) ventral margins and rounded longitudinal bends between these lobes and disc, and with almost straight or slightly concave anterior and posterior margins of disc; legs moderately long but rather thick, with hind femora more or less adapted to jumping ( Fig. 36 ), 2–3 ventral apical spurs on fore and middle tibiae, as well as large or moderately large dorsal spines and denticles on hind tibia (apical spurs of this tibia usual for Podoscirtina but not long; longest one reaching nearly the middle of hind basitarsus and not longer than its apical spurs); abdominal apex with short anal plate having distal part widely truncate in male ( Fig. 38 ) and rounded in female; genital plate in male barely notched at apex and almost 2.5 times as long as anal plate ( Fig. 39 ), in female distinctly notched and slightly longer or slightly shorter than anal plate ( Figs 31, 34, 40, 43, 46 ); male genitalia with short simple (approximately triangular or quadratic) epiphallus possessing a pair of dorsal lobules at apex (near each other) and shallow gently sloping posterior notch, without ectoparameres (they possibly lost), with wide rachis distinctly protruding beyond epiphallus and narrowing to apex, with long endoparameral apodemes connected with rachis, with simple and not large formula having short anterior apodeme, and with thin or partly reduced rami ( Figs 26–28 ); ovipositor rather long, with narrowly conical apical part possessing small but strong drilling teeth on ventral surfaces of upper valves as well as very small teeth on their lateral surfaces.

Included species. Four species (one of them with two subspecies) considered below.

Figures

Figs 29–46. Parametrypa, female (29–34, 37, 40–46) and male (35, 36, 38, 39): 29–31, P. fortipes fortipes; 32–34, P. fortipes spiculata, stat. nov.; 35–40, P. pubescens sp. nov.; 41–43, P. longispinosa sp. nov.; 44–46, P. dentata sp. nov. Head with pronotum, dorsolateral and slightly anterior view (29, 32, 35, 41, 44); proximal half of hind tibia (30, 33, 37, 42, 45), dorsal and slightly inner view (left) as well as dorsal and slightly outer view (right); genital plate from below (31, 34, 40, 43, 46); hind femur, outer view (36); abdominal apex from above (38) and from below (39).

Figs 18–28. Kilimagryllus and Parametrypa, male: 18–21, K. bilobulatus sp. nov. (18–20, holotype; 21, paratype); 22–25, K. bilobulatus limpopo subsp. nov.; 26–28, P. pubescens sp. nov. Genitalia from above (18, 23, 26), from below (19, 24, 27) and from side (20, 25, 28); apical part of epiphallus from above (21); spermatophore from side (22).