Gryllotalpa cycloptera Ma & Zhang, 2011

Wang, Ning, Yuan, Wei, Zhang, Tao, Gu, Jun-Jie & Ma, Li-Bin, 2024, Gryllotalpa chrysea sp. nov., a new species of Mole Cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae: Gryllotalpinae) from China, Zootaxa 5501 (3), pp. 483-487 : 486

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Gryllotalpa cycloptera Ma & Zhang, 2011 View in CoL

Chinese name: 圆OiDzdz

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Gryllotalpa cycloptera Ma & Zhang, 2011: 47 View in CoL View Cited Treatment

Materials examined. China: 2 males, Zhejiang, hangzhou, 5-ix-2022, Wang, Ning coll. ( SNNU) .

Redescription. Genitalia ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 ). In dorsal view, transverse sclerite of epiphallus M-shaped, broad, ends distinctly enlarged and weakly ossified; in ventral view, the epiphallus triangular at the tip, lamellate and distinctly widened at the base; in lateral view, epiphallus L-shaped; ectoparamere U-shaped and laterally dilated.

Remarks. G. cycloptera is one of the smaller known species in the genus Gryllotalpa , and is similar in appearance to Gryllotalpa jinxiuensis You & Li, 1990 , Gryllotalpa henana Cai & Niu, 1998 , and Gryllotalpa breviabdominis Ma & Zhang, 2011 in that it is dark brown. The genitalia of G. cycloptera are damaged in its first description ( Ma & Zhang, 2011), and here we have added description and illustration of its genitalia. Observation of the external morphology reveals that the pronotum of G. cycloptera is long ovate, abdomen segments 1 th –3 th are slender and expanded at the end, the forewings are shorter covering only the first three segments. In addition, the transverse sclerite of epiphallus of this species is M-shaped and L-shaped in lateral view. These features distinguish this species from others.

References

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Ma, L. B. & Zhang, Y. L. (2011) Redescriptions of two incompletely described species of mole cricket genus Gryllotalpa (Grylloidea; Gryllotalpidae; Gryllotalpinae) from China with description of two new species and a key to the known Chinese species. Zootaxa, 2733 (1), 41 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2733.1.4

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