Upupagryllus alatus Desutter-Grandcolas

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 : 487

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3948.3.5

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:809AC895-779E-419D-8EBE-071F0ACCD72E

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5687713

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038D8783-FFB1-3266-FF7D-FA14FDC0F867

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scientific name

Upupagryllus alatus Desutter-Grandcolas
status

sp. nov.

Upupagryllus alatus Desutter-Grandcolas View in CoL , n. sp.

( Figs 13 View FIGURE 13 J–P, 14D–F)

Type locality. Tanzania, Coast. Reg. Kisarame distr., kazimzumbui forets reserve, 39° 03'E 6°57'S.

Type material. Holotype. Tanzania, Coast. Reg. Kisarame distr., kazimzumbui forest reserve,, 39° 03'E 6°57'S, 1 male, Jan–Feb 1991, Frontier Tanzania leg., ZMC. Allotype. Same data as the holotype, 1 female, ZMC. Paratype, 1 male. Same data as the holotype, 1 male, MNHN-EO-ENSIF3742.

Etymology. Species named after male FW condition.

Diagnosis. Within the genus, small, flat and wide species with short legs; light yellowish brown with dark brown abdomen. Male with wide FWs, covering more than half abdomen; stridulatory apparatus ( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 K): harp with five oblique, parallel veins, mirror low and very wide crossed by one vein only; cell below the mirror longer than mirror width; apical field very reduced, without venation. Lateral field ( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 L) with high media veins; R and its bifurcations faint. Male genitalia very similar to that of U. subapterus Desutter-Grandcolas , n. sp., the distal sclerites not acute, and less separate from each other; rami shorter distally ( Fig. 14 View FIGURE 14 ). Female apterous; ovipositor longer than TIII. Female genitalia: copulatory papilla very distinctive, with a wide dorsal swelling and a bifid membrane above the apex ( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 N–P);

ZMC

Deptment of Biology, Zunyi Medical College

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