Reyesacris tika, Mariño-Pérez & Sanabria-Urbán & Pocco & Foquet & Song, 2021

Mariño-Pérez, Ricardo, Sanabria-Urbán, Salomón, Pocco, Martina E., Foquet, Bert & Song, Hojun, 2021, Studies in Mexican Grasshoppers: Four new species of Reyesacris Fontana Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2011 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Ommatolampidinae), Zootaxa 5039 (4), pp. 518-536 : 529-530

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5039.4.4

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5516622

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Reyesacris tika
status

sp. nov.

5. Reyesacris tika View in CoL sp. nov. Mariño-Pérez, Sanabria-Urbán, Pocco, Foquet, & Song

Figs. 2E & F View FIGURE 2 , 7 View FIGURE 7 , 10 View FIGURE 10 , 12C View FIGURE 12

Diagnosis. Hind margin of 10 th abdominal tergite with three large dark knobs. Male supra-anal plate with 2 + 2-3 large dark knobs. Sclerotized surrounding areas of lophi of epiphallus ovoid in dorsal view. Dorsal margin of the sheath of aedeagus slightly rounded in lateral view, fused with dorsolateral projections of the dorsal aedeagal valves forming an apical groove. Short aedeagal valvae, almost covered by the sheath of aedeagus; apex of dorsal valves with anterior outer margin directed ventrally, involving laterally ventral ones.

Male description ( Fig. 2E & F View FIGURE 2 ). External genitalia ( Fig. 7A View FIGURE 7 ). Cerci triangular with internal spine in the basal half. Margin of 10 th abdominal tergite thickened and forming three black projections. Supra-anal plate triangular with dilated margins. Four to five large knobs in a 2 + 2-3 pattern. Internal genitalia ( Fig. 7B–E View FIGURE 7 ). Epiphallus ( Fig. 7B & C View FIGURE 7 ). Well sclerotized, bridge almost straight, anterior projections globose and rounded. Ancorae triangular. Lophi prominent with an anterior portion and surrounding areas well sclerotized. Ovoid shape of this sclerotized area from dorsal view. Lateral plates poorly developed. Posterior projections enlarged. Oval sclerites semi-triangular. Ecto + Endophallus complex ( Fig. 7D & E View FIGURE 7 ). Ectophallus. Apodemes of cingulum elongated. Zygoma welldeveloped. Rami well-developed. Sheath of aedeagus folded at tip with dorsal margin slightly rounded in lateral view. This dorsal margin fuses with the lateral-dorsal projections of the dorsal valvae of aedeagus forming an apical groove evident in lateral view of ectophallus. Endophallus. Apodemes of endophallus laterally compressed, arch of aedeagus elevated (“L shaped, in lateral view). Dorsal valvae well sclerotized, with dorsolateral quadrated projections (“anterior margins nearly perpendicular to body axis). Apex of the dorsal valvae with anterior outer margin directed ventrally and involving laterally ventral ones. Ventral valvae a little longer than dorsal ones, semicircular and with expanded rounded apex. Both valvae almost covered by sheath of aedeagus. Female description. Cerci small conical and supragenital plate semi triangular.

Etymology. The specific epithet is referring to the name given by local people to grasshoppers in Mixteco language.

Male measurements (4). Pronotum length 3.41–3.61 (3.49; 0.09); tegmen length 2.47–3.35 (2.95; 0.36); hind femur length 9.85–10.32 (10.07; 0.21).

Female measurements (1). Pronotum length 4.93; tegmen length 3.79; hind femur length 13.08.

Male holotype. Mexico, Oaxaca, San Isidro Paz y Progreso. L 22-2018. 1365 m (17.0734°N; 97.837°W) GoogleMaps . 30- X-2018. Legit Sanabria-Urbán, Jiménez-Arcos. CAFESI .

Additional type material. Five males and one female (adults) and five males and five females (nymphs) same data as above. UMMZ, CAFESI .

Geographic distribution. Only known from type locality ( Fig. 11), which is found in the Mixtec region, along the external versant of the Sierra Madre del Sur near the boundaries between Oaxaca and Guerrero states. This species al also found in mid-elevations in association mainly with tropical mountainous and cloud forests vegetation .

UMMZ

University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Acrididae

Genus

Reyesacris

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