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Phryganogryllacris longicerca 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

3.12 Phryganogryllacris longicerca Li, Liu & Li, sp. nov. (Figs 39–41)

Male. Body medium. Fastigium of vertex about 1.5 times as wide as scape. Ocelli inconspicuous. Fore margin of pronotum slightly roundly projected, hind margin straight. Tegmina rather extending beyond the apex of hind femora, R with 3 branches, Rs occurred from 1/3 of R, furcated, M independent, its basal section close to R; CuA with 3 branches, the fore branch of first and second branches united with the M, A with 4, the last of them united at base. Wings slightly extending beyond tegmen. Hind femora on ventral surface with 6–7 internal spines and external spines; hind tibiae on dorsal surface with 6 internal spines and external spines. 9 th abdominal tergite rather short, posterior margin truncate, each side with a long hook-like process directed externally. Cerci rather long, almost 9 mm long (Fig. 40); posterior margin of subgenital plate deeply split into two rounded lobes; styli short and slightly flattened (Fig. 41).

Female. Unknown.

Coloration. Body yellowish brown, occiput blackish brown, with pale cruciate macula (Fig. 39); eyes blackish brown. Pronotum yellowish brown, with blackish margins, the disk blackish brown with two pale macula, later lobes yellowish brown. Venation slightly darken. Spines and spurs of all legs, every abdominal tergites, both sides of sterna of 8 th abdominal tergites darkish black.

Measurement. Body, ♂ 22.0 mm; pronotum, ♂ 5.0 mm; tegmina, ♂ 28.0 mm; hind femora, ♂ 15.0 mm.

Material examined. Holotype ♂, Guangxi, Xing’an, Maoer Mountain, 10 August 2009, Ying Yan and Bao-Ping Huang legs.

Distribution. Guangxi.

Etymology. The species is named refer to the very long cerci of male.

Remarks. This new species is very similar to Phryganogryllacris interrupta, but differs from it by the head and pronotum blackish pattern and abdominal tergite 9 of male with almost truncated posterior margin.

© Zoological Systematics, 39(4): 507–519

Funding This research was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai, China (14ZR1413000), the Scientific Research Innovation Foundation of East China Normal University (78210268), the Science-technology Basic Condition Platform from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (2005DKA21402) and Informationization Project of CAS-Integration of Scientific Databases in Zoological Science (XXH12504-1-03).

© Zoological Systematics, 39(4): 507–519

Acknowledgements We thank Chun-Xiang Liu (Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Li Dai (Shanghai Entomology Museum, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai) for their help on the manuscript. We are grateful to all collectors in this paper.

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 pages 517-519, DOI: 10.11865/zs.20140404, http://zenodo.org/record/4617426

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Biodiversity

Event date
2009-08-10
Family
Haglidae
Genus
Phryganogryllacris
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Li, Liu & Li
Species
longicerca
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
2009-08-10
Taxonomic concept label
Phryganogryllacris longicerca Li, Liu & Li, 2014