Larandopsis Chopard, 1924

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Larandopsis Chopard, 1924

Larandopsis Chopard, 1924: 86 .

Type species. Larandopsis choprai Chopard, 1924

Other species included. Two additional species were described from New Guinea, Larandopsis jharnae Bhowmik, 1981 and L. newguineae Bhowmik, 1981 . According to Bhowmik’s (1981) descriptions and illustration, these species do not belong to Larandopsis , but to the eneopterine genus Lebinthus Stål, 1877 (fastigium more than twice as wide as the scape, outer tympanum « prominent, elongated, oval », inner tympanum very narrow, elongate; FW venation as in Fig. 1 B in Bhowmik 1981).

Distribution. Assam.

Diagnosis. According to Chopard (1924, 1969): Size small. Fastigium as wide as the scape. Maxillary palpi with very long joint 5. Legs rather long. TI with inner tympanum. FIII rather short. TIII with four pairs of subapical spurs, the inners longer than the outers; three inner apical spurs, the median and dorsal spurs very long, the dorsal the longest, as long as metatarsus; three outer apical spurs, very short, the median about twice as long as the other two. Cerci as long as the body. FWs and HWs present in both sexes. Colouration (juvenile specimens, with a yellow line on brown tergites): Face yellowish with a median brownish band; pronotum dorsal disc brownish with an irregular whitish band and a large, more or less rounded, yellowish spot on each side; lateral lobes fuscous with a small yellow spot; legs yellowish with brown bands.

Remark. Chopard (1969) considered that Larandopsis , which has been defined using juvenile specimens, should be close to Luzaropsis Chopard, 1925 from Sri Lanka (see below).

Habitat. Found in caves ( Chopard 1969).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Female copulatory papilla (A – H) in: A, Cacoplistes sp, female identified Cachoplistus rogenhoferi Saussure, 1877 by L. Chopard (specimen MNHN-ENSIF 2960, Tonkin, Dong Daky), distal view; B – C, Meloimorpha japonica (specimen MNHN-ENSIF 2963, Japan, Kyoto), ventral (B), lateral (C); D – F, Homoeogryllus xanthographus Guérin-Méneville, 1847 (specimen MNHN-ENSIF 2944, Tchad, Amdjamena), dorsal (D), ventral (E), lateral (F); G – H, Arachnomimus maindroni (Chopard, 1969), n. comb., dorsal (G), lateral (H). Hind tibia apical spurs in: I, Arachnomimus maindroni (Chopard, 1969), n. comb. inner spurs; J, Arachnomimus nietneri (Saussure, 1878), outer spurs. Scale 1 mm.