Kameruloria Gorochov, 2003

Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, 2015, Phalangopsidae crickets from Tropical Africa (Orthoptera, Grylloidea), with descriptions of new taxa and an identification key for African genera, Zootaxa 3948 (3), pp. 451-496 : 467-468

Genus Kameruloria Gorochov, 2003

( Figs 5–7 )

Type species. Kameruloria primitiva Gorochov, 2003 .

Distribution. Western Central Africa ( Cameroon, Congo, Gabon).

Emended diagnosis. Among the Subtiloriini , Kameruloria has been diagnosed (see Gorochov 2003) by its tympana (inner tympanum open, oval, medium-sized; outer tympanum strongly reduced, as a small longitudinal concavity only), its second tarsomeres (weakly widened), the male tegmina with normal stridulatory apparatus (italics mine), developped tegmina in females, the simple supra anal plate of the males (without hook-like spines), its comparatively narrow subgenital plate in males, slightly notched apically, and its male genitalia ("hind epiphallic processes" present but short, "ectoparameres" short, and the "simple and widely-rounded apical part of the guiding rod" (here ectophallic fold) "as well as wide ribbon between left and right endoparameres", see Gorochov 2003, p. 84).

In addition to the general characters of the Phaloriinae for the head, pronotum, tibial apical spurs, TIII and hindtarsomeres III serrulation given above, and those common to African genera (male FW venation: mirror transverse veins parallel over their whole length, harp veins distributed over the whole file width, see Fig. 5 D, E), the following characters could be listed to emend the diagnosis of Kameruloria : TI not widely inflated at the level of the tympana (contra Heterotrypus , Schizotrypus and Subtiloria ), TIII inner subapical spurs not very long and almost equal in length, the longest much shorter than the inner dorsal apical spur (contra Heterotrypus , Schizotrypus and Subtiloria ); male genitalia ( Fig. 6 ) characterized by a well-developed, wide but short ectophallic fold, shortly going beyond other phallic structures, and short pseudepiphallic structures (distal processes and parameres); ectophallic dorsal valves variably developed (well developped in K. trimaculata Desutter-Grandcolas , n.sp. ( Fig. 6 G–I), but very reduced in K. gabonensis Desutter-Grandcolas , n. sp., K. nigricornis Desutter- Grandcolas, n. sp. ( Fig. 6 A–C, D–F) and perhaps also in K. primitiva (according to Gorochov 2003, Fig. 15 )).

Figures

FIGURE 5. Kameruloria Gorochov, 2003. A – C, maxillary palpi; D – E, dorsal field of male forewing; F, male supra anal plate; G – H, male subgenital plate; I – J, male genitalia, details of pseudepiphallic processes, of Kameruloria nigricornis Desutter- Grandcolas, n. sp. (A, D, F, G, I), Kameruloria gabonensis Desutter-Grandcolas, n. sp. (B, H, J) and Kameruloria trimaculata Desutter-Grandcolas, n. sp. (C, E). Scale bars 1 mm.

FIGURE 6. Kameruloria Gorochov, 2003. Male genitalia in dorsal (A, D, G), ventral (B, E, H) and lateral (C, F, I) views of: Kameruloria nigricornis Desutter-Grandcolas, n. sp. (A – C), Kameruloria gabonensis Desutter-Grandcolas, n. sp. (D – F) and Kameruloria trimaculata Desutter-Grandcolas, n. sp. (G – I). Abbreviations, see page 3.

FIGURE 7. Kameruloria Gorochov, 2003. Female subgenital plate, ventral view (A – B) and copulatory papilla (C – G) in dorsal (E), ventral (D, F) and lateral (C, G) views of: Kameruloria nigricornis Desutter-Grandcolas, n. sp. (A, C, D) and Kameruloria trimaculata Desutter-Grandcolas, n. sp. (B, E – G). Scale bars 1 mm. Abbreviations: see page **.

FIGURE 15. Paragryllodes amani Desutter-Grandcolas, n. sp., male holotype (A, C – E, H, I), female allotype (B, F, K, L) and male paratype MNHN-EO-ENSIF 3597 (G): habitus in dorsal view (A, B); face coloration (C); hindtibia in dorsal view (D); forewings in dorsal view (E, F); male metanotum (G); supra anal (H) and subgenital (I, K) plates; ovipositor apex in lateral view (L). Scales for habitus 1 mm.