Phaloria sp.

Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, 2009, New and little known crickets from Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Pseudotrigonidium Chopard, 1915, Phaloriinae and Nemobiinae p. p.), Zoosystema 31 (3), pp. 619-659 : 638-639

Phaloria sp.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Vanuatu. [Sanma province], Espiritu Santo [island], Butmas, 600 m alt., forêt du plateau de Tankara, 15°21’56”S, 166°59’E, jour, sur plante, bord de piste, 13.X.2006, L. Desutter-Grandcolas, 1 ♀ (fn 19) (MNHN-ENSIF2116).

DIAGNOSIS. — Species close to P. chopardi n. comb., from which it differs mostly by its TIII and its pattern of colouration. Th e specimen examined probably belongs to a new Phaloria species , which will have to be described with additional material of both sexes.

DESCRIPTION

General features as in P. chopardi n. comb. TIII highly pilose, distincly annulated and asymetrical, with a distinct longitudinal crest along outer margin; this crest dark brown; serrulation as in P. chopardi n. comb.; inner spines number: 0 between apex and spur 1, and between spurs 1 and 2; 1 between spurs 2 and 3; 2 between spurs 3 and 4; 9 above subapical spur 4; number of outer spines: 0 between apex and spur 1; 3 between spurs 1 and 2; 3 between spurs 2 and 3; 5 between spurs 3 and 4, 10 above subapical spur 4. Basitarsi III with 2 outer spines, in addition to apical one.

Colouration

Global colouration more contrasted than in P. chopardi n. comb. Head dorsum dark ochre, the lateral ocelli hardly distinct (whitish in P.chopardi n. comb.). Scapes dark ochre, their base and an outer band yellowish. Pronotum very dark brown, the dorsal muscular inscriptions light ochre; lateral lobes also dark brown, without obvious yellow spot.

Female FWs very similar to that of P. chopardi n. comb.; transverse veins as strong as longitudinal veins; dorsal field venation: 3 anal veins, A3 bifurcated; CuA and CuP both bifurcated 3 times. Lateral field with Sc bifurcated 11 times. Ovipositor as long as in P. chopardi n. comb., its apex however much smaller, not distinctly enlarged and of the same colour as the rest of the ovipositor.