Phalangopsina bolivari Desutter-Grandcolas

Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure & Jaiswara, Ranjana, 2012, Phalangopsidae crickets from the Indian Region (Orthoptera, Grylloidea), with the descriptions of new taxa, diagnoses for genera, and a key to Indian genera, Zootaxa 3444, pp. 1-39 : 19-21

Phalangopsina bolivari Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp.

( Figs 7 E, 8A–G, Table 3)

Type material: Holotype, female, Mission Maduré / type / Arachnopsis dubius / Ex. Coll. Pantel (MNHN- ENSIF 2967).

Note: As mentioned above, this female belongs to the type series of P. d u b i a in Pantel Collection ( Paris, 1994) and has been designated here as a paralectotype of P. dubia .

Examined material: Female holotype, MNHN-ENSIF2967.

Diagnosis. In addition to the characters of the genus: Size larger than P. dubia . Maxillary palpi elongate, joint 5 regularly widened ( Fig. 8 B). Colouration: face dark brown, with a yellow band under each antennal pit, prolonged on clypeus and joining on labrum; cheeks yellow; pronotum dark brown; tibiae all annulated with brown; FI and II with two small brown rings in distal half, but yellow in basal half. Male unknown. Female. Ovipositor straight, distinctly longer than FIII, about 10 mm long. Female genitalia. Copulatory papilla higher and narrower dorsally than in P. dubia , and with a longer distal part (compare figs 8F, G and 8K, L); apex straight.

Description. In addition to the characters of the genus: Size larger than P. dubia (compare measurements). Head. Scape as long as wide ( Fig. 8 A). Palpi longer; joint 3 smaller than joint 4; joint 5 the longest, widened regularly from the base, apex as on Fig. 8 B. Pronotum. Transverse, but more rounded, with raised lateral anterior lobes. Legs. TIII inner and outer apical spurs as on ( Fig. 8 C, D); inner serrulation in examined female: no spine between spurs 1 and 2, one or two spine(s) between spurs 2 and 3, four spines between spurs 3 and 4, seven spines above spurs; outer serrulation: two or three spines between spurs 1 and 2, four to six spines between spurs 2 and 3, five spines between spurs 3 and 4, eigth to nine spines above spurs. Basitarsomeres III with two rows of small spines dorsally: one inner and four outer spines, in addition to distal spines. FIII setose, with short filiform apical part.

Colouration: head brown, face darker, with a yellow band under each antennal pit prolonged dorsally along each eye toward the vertex; facial bands prolonged on the clypeus and joined on the labrum; an additional thin yellow line on vertex mid line; posterior margin of the cheeks yellowish; palpi joints yellowish basally, brown apically; pronotum brown, the pyriform inscriptions, a thin median line and the mid part of anterior margin of dorsal disc yellowish; TI and TII yellowish with three brown rings; FI and FII yellowish, with two brown rings in distal half; TIII yellowish, with six undistinct brownish flecks or rings; FIII with two light brown rings distally, an additional brown fleck on inner side and brown stripes on outer side; basitarsi light brown with yellow base ( Fig. 7 E). Abdomen mottled with yellowish, light brown and dark brown.

Male. Unknown.

Female. Subgenital plate distal margin sinuate ( Fig. 8 E); yellowish, with a brown fleck in median apical part. Ovipositor straight, well longer than FIII.

Female genitalia. Copulatory papilla high and clearly narrowed dorsally; distal apex straight ( Fig. 8 F, G).

Measurements. See Table 3.

Habitat. Unknown.

Pron-L W-Pron Wmax-pron FIII-L TIII-L Ovip-L Holotype 2.0 2.8 3.1 8.8 8.3 10.1

Figures

FIGURE 7. Phalangopsina dubia (Bolivar, 1900). A, Female lectotype, colouration of head and pronotum, lateral; B – D, female paralectotype, colouration, lateral (B), dorsal (C), FIII, outer side (D). Phalangopsina bolivari Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp., E, FIII colouration, outer side. Phalangopsina chopardi Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp., F, FIII colouration, outer side. Phalangopsina gravelyi Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp., G, body colouration, dorsal; H, FIII colouration, outer side. Scales 1 mm.

FIGURE 8. Phalangopsina bolivari Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp. (A – G) and Phalangopsina chopardi Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp. (H – L). A, H, scape, anterior side; B, maxillary palpus; C, D, I, apical spurs of hind tibia, inner (C, I), outer (D); E, J, female subgenital plate; F, G, K, L, female copulatory papilla, dorsal (F, K), lateral (G, L). Abbreviations, see text p. ***. Scales 1 mm.