Paragryllodes nitidula ( Bolivar, 1912 ), 2021

Hugel, Sylvain, Warren, Ben H. & Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, 2021, The Phalangopsidae crickets (Orthoptera, Grylloidea) of the Seychelles Archipelago: Taxonomy of an ecological radiation, Zootaxa 5047 (3), pp. 201-246 : 208

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scientific name

Paragryllodes nitidula ( Bolivar, 1912 )
status

 

Paragryllodes nitidula ( Bolivar, 1912) n. comb.

( Figs 1A View FIGURE 1 , 2 View FIGURE 2 A-D, Table 1)

Seychellesia nitidula Bolivar, 1912: 286 View in CoL — Gorochov 2006: 445.

Type locality. Seychelles, Silhouette , near Mare aux Cochons, over 1000 feet ( Bolivar (1912).

Type material. Lectotype female (designated by Gorochov 2006), Seychelles, Silhouette island [′Silhouette′, ′08, Seychelles Exp. 21′, ′′type′, ′Figured specimen′, ′Holotype′, ′Seychellia gen. n. nitidula sp. n. ′, ′ Seychelles, Percy Sladen Trust Expedition, 1913-170′, “ syntype] ( NHM).

Other material examined. Seychelles, Silhouette , Jardin Marron vers Mt Pot à eau, 550 m, vue de nuit, 1 female (2010SEYSH200), 5.x.2010, S. Hugel, MNHN-EO-ENSIF12094 .

Molecular sampling. LDG 375 in Warren et al. (2019).

Remarks. Seychellesia nitidula is only known by females, but both molecular data ( Chintauan-Marquier et al. 2013, 2016) and morphology (see below) indicate that Seychellesia nitidula belongs to Paragryllodes Karny, 1909 and is not related to the other species from the Seychelles described under the name Seychellesia (i.e. Seychellesia patellifera Bolivar, 1912 and Seychellesia longicercata Bolivar, 1912 ), for which we describe here the new genus Seselia Hugel & Desutter-Grandcolas , n. gen. S eychellesia nitidula shares the following characters with Paragryllodes : shiny cuticula; eyes strongly protruding; fastigium lower than head dorsum, and separated from it by a transverse furrow; median ocellus in frontal position, apical on fastigium; maxillary palpi moderately elongate, article 4 distinctively shorter that articles 3 and 5; pronotum sulcated; LL more or less perpendicular to DD; female copulatory papilla forming a sclerotized chamber ( Fig. 2D View FIGURE 2 ).

Bolivar, I. (1912) Orthoptera Acrydiidae, Phasgonuridae, Gryllidae of the Seychelles. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Series 2, Zoologie, 15, 263 - 292. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1912. tb 00101. x

Chintauan-Marquier, I. C., Legendre, F., Hugel, S., Robillard, T., Grandcolas, P., Nel, A., Zuccon, D. & Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (2013) Laying the foundations of evolutionary and systematic studies in crickets (Insecta, Orthoptera): a multilocus phylogenetic analysis. 11 th International Congres of Orthopterology, Kunming, China, 2013, oral communication.

Chintauan-Marquier, I. C., Legendre, F., Hugel, S., Robillard, T., Grandcolas, P., Nel, A., Zuccon, D. & Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (2016) Laying the foundations of evolutionary and systematic studies in crickets (Insecta, Orthoptera): a multilocus phylogenetic analysis. Cladistics, 32, 54 - 81. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / cla. 12114

Gorochov, A. V. (2006) New and Little Known Crickets of the Subfamily Phalangopsinae (Orthoptera, Gryllidae): 3. Indonesia, the Philippines, and Seychelles. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 85, 691 - 701. [in Russian, Entomological. Review 86, 438 - 448 (2006)] https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / S 0013873806040087

Karny, H. H. (1909) Ostafrikanische Orthopteren. Sammelausbeute von A. Borgert, 1904 - 1905. 9. Mitteilung. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik, Oekologie und Geographie der Tiere, 27, 477 - 480.

Warren, B., Hugel, S. & Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (2019) Long-legged cricket phylogeny (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Phalangopsidae): delimiting new model groups for evolutionary studies. 13 th International Congres of Orthopterology, Agadir (Maroc), 2019, Oral communication.

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FIGURE 1. Phalangopsidae crickets from the Seychelles in the wild. A, Paragryllodes nitidula (Bolivar, 1912) n. comb., female. B, Phaloria (Papuloria) bolivari Hugel & Desutter-Grandcolas, n. sp., male. C, same, female. D, Phaeogryllus fuscus Bolivar, 1912, male. E, same, female. F, Phalangacris ferlegro Hugel & Desutter-Grandcolas, n. sp. male, G, same, female.

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FIGURE 2. Paragryllodes Karny, 1909: A–D, Paragryllodes nitidula (Bolivar, 1912) n. comb.A, head and pronotum in dorsal view; B, head in face view; some of the light patterns on the black shiny cuticula are reflections and not real patterns; C, hindfemur outer side; D, copulatory papilla in ventral view. E, Paragryllodes milloti (Chopard, 1958), copulatory papilla in ventral view. Scales 1 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Phalangopsidae

Genus

Paragryllodes