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Phryganogryllacris parva Li, Liu & Li 2014, sp. nov.

  • 1. School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China & Shanghai Entomology Museum, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China Corresponding author, E-mail: liuxianwei 2008 @ 163. com; kaili @ bio. ecnu. edu. cn
  • 2. School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
  • 3. Shanghai Entomology Museum, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China Corresponding author, E-mail: liuxianwei 2008 @ 163. com; kaili @ bio. ecnu. edu. cn

Description

3.6 Phryganogryllacris parva Li, Liu & Li, sp. nov. (Figs 16–17)

Female. Body small. Fastigium of vertex rounded, about 2 times as wide as scape; eyes ovoid, prominent; Ocelli 3. Tegmina slightly extending beyond the apex of hind femora, R bifurcate near apex; Rs occurred after the middle of R, with 2 branches; M simple, its basal section close to R; CuA occurred behind the middle. Wings slightly extending beyond tegmen. Hind femora on ventral surface with 2 internal spines and 5–6 external spines; hind tibiae on dorsal surface with 5 internal spines and external spines. Subgenital plate semicircular, posterior margin slightly concave (Fig. 16). Ovipositor broad and short, with somewhat blunt apex (Fig. 17).

Male. Unknown.

Coloration. Body pale yellowish brown. Eyes blackish brown, ocelli yellow, lateral and hind margin of pronotum dark, ventral of pronotum with darkish brown longitudinal bands on two sides; venation of tegmina, spines of hind legs slightly with dark, ventral and dorsal of abdomen blackish brown.

Measurement. Body, ♀ 17.5 mm; pronotum, ♀ 3.5 mm; tegmina, ♀ 15.0 mm; hind femora, ♀ 9.0 mm; ovipositor, ♀ 7.0 mm.

Material examined. Holotype ♀, Guizhou, Fanjing Mountain, 1 August 2001, Fu-Ming Shi leg.

Distribution. Guizhou.

Etymology. The species is named refer to the body small.

Remarks. This new species is very similar to P. gialai (Gorochov, 2004) comb. nov. and P. alia (Gorochov, 2004) comb. nov. from Vietnam, but differs from the latters by the stripes of pronotum and shape of subgenital plate.

Notes

Published as part of Li, Miao-Miao, Fang, Yan, Liu, Xian-Wei & Li, Kai, 2014, Taxonomic revision of the genus Phryganogryllacris (Orthoptera: Gryllacrididae) from China, pp. 507-519 in Zoological Systematics 39 (4) on page 513, DOI: 10.11865/zs.20140404, http://zenodo.org/record/4617426

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2001-08-01
Family
Haglidae
Genus
Phryganogryllacris
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Li, Liu & Li
Species
parva
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
2001-08-01
Taxonomic concept label
Phryganogryllacris parva Li, Liu & Li, 2014

References

  • Gorochov, A. V. 2004. A Contributions to the Fauna and Systematics of Stenopelmatoidea (Orthoptera) of Indochina and Some Other Territories: V. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 83 (4): 816 - 841.