Lebinthus luae Robillard & Tan, 2013

Robillard, Tony & Yap, Sheryl, 2015, The Eneopterinae crickets from Leyte Island (Philippines) with description of two new species [Insecta: Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Gryllidae], Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 63, pp. 69-90 : 71

Lebinthus luae Robillard & Tan, 2013

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Lebinthus luae Robillard & Tan, 2013: 718 – Eades et al., 2014 ( Orthoptera Species File Online).

Lebinthus bitaeniatus Stål, 1877 – Robillard & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2004a: 275; 2006: 644; Robillard, 2011: 25 (Specimens misidentified).

Lebinthus sp. – Tan, 2010: 246; Tan et al., 2012: 66; Tan, 2012: 4; Tan & Wang, 2012: 315.

Lebinthus n. sp. affinis bitaeniatus – Robillard et al., 2013a: 2003 > mechanism of stridulation.

Type material. Holotype (male): Singapore: male (TR6), day, leaf litter ( ZRC), Labrador park, forêt secondaire littorale [coastal secondary forest], 01°15’59”N, 103°48’8.1”E, 57 m (GPS Lab1), coll. T. Robillard, 12 June 2011.

Allotype (female): Singapore: female (TR42bis), day, leaf litter ( ZRC), Pulau Ubin Island , Jalan Endut Senin, 01°24’19.3”N, 103°57’58.7”E, 0 m, coll. T. Robillard, 30 June 2009.

Paratypes (14 males, 7 females): Singapore : 1 male (TR4), call recording (MNHN-EO-ENSIF 3207), same information as HT. 1 male (TR17) ( ZRC) ; 1 male (TR41) ( UPLB MNH) ; 1 male (TR16), 1 female (TR53) (MNHN-EO-ENSIF3206), same information as AT. 2 males (TR10, 11), leaf litter, call recording (MNHN-EO-ENSIF3107-3209); 1 male (TR9) copulation recording in the field (MNHN-EO-ENSIF3210), Labrador park, coastal secondary forest, 01°15’58.7”N, 103°48’10.3”E, 46 m (GPS Lab 3), day, coll. T. Robillard, 14 June 2011 . 2 males (TR38, 54), day, leaf litter, call recording (MNHN-EO-ENSIF2740-3208), Labrador park, 01°16’02.2”N, 103°48’05.6”E, 46 m, coll. T. Robillard, 7 July 2009 . 2 females, day, leaf litter (dead in captivity) ( ZRC) , 1 female, day, leaf litter (dead in captivity) ( UPLB MNH), Sentosa Island , 01°14’49.4”N, 103°50’01.1”E, 17 m, coll. T. Robillard, 6 July 2009 . 1 female (MNHN-EO-ENSIF3205), Semakan landfill, coll. RMBR Nature Guide, 5 December 2009 . 1 male ( ZRC), Pulau Tekong , 7 April 1984, coll. D. H. Murphy ; 1 male ( ZRC), Sentosa , 20 January 1985, coll. D. H. Murphy ; 1 male, 1 female ( ZRC), Pulau Ubin , along Sensory Trail, 4 December 2009, coll. M. K. Tan ; 1 male, 1 female ( ZRC), Hindhede Nature Park , secondary forest, 2 June 2011, coll. M. K. Tan ; 1 male (TR23), night ( MNHN- ENSIF3090 ), Bukit Timah Nature Reserve , Hindhede trail, 01°15’57”N, 103°46’33.6”E, 68 m, 20 June 2011, coll. T. Robillard [examined]

Figures

Fig.1. Map of Leyte and distribution of the species mentioned in the study. Map modified after snapshots from www.maphill.com.

Fig. 2. A, Secondary habitat of Lebinthus luae in Maripipi Island (Biliran Islands, Philippines); B, Secondary forested habitat of Lebinthus estrellae, new species (in the leaf litter), Cardiodactylus empagatao Otte (in low trees and banana trees) and Paranisitra leytensis, new species (intermediate vegetation) in Villa Corazon Barangay, Burauen, Leyte.