identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
0534FFADB53955B684A17EAC128C8E04.text	0534FFADB53955B684A17EAC128C8E04.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gryllotalpa xinjiangica Gu & Miao 2026	<div><p>Gryllotalpa xinjiangica Gu &amp; Miao sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 1, 2, 3</p><p>Chinese name.</p><p>新疆蝼蛄.</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype: China • ♂; Xinjiang, Aksu Prefecture, Awati County, Ganquan Town, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=79.9939&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=40.3883" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 79.9939/lat 40.3883)">Wangou Village</a>; 40.3883°N, 79.9939°E; alt. 1054 m; 18 Aug. 2023; Ying Miao, Ling Zhu and Jun Zhang leg.; GenBank: PV 591918; NXU . Paratypes: • 2 ♂, 1 ♀, same collection data as holotype • 1 ♀; Xinjiang, Aksu Prefecture, Xinhe County, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=82.5966&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=41.6233" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 82.5966/lat 41.6233)">Yiqi Airike Town</a>; 41.6233°N, 82.5966°E; alt. 1023 m; 30 Jul. 2022; Xin-Pu Wang, Yan Ma and Yu-Chen Zhao leg.; GenBank: PV 591919; NXU .</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>Gryllotalpa xinjiangica sp. nov. is a large mole cricket (body length&gt; 40 mm) characterized by the following combination of characters: body generally greyish brown with yellowish ocelli; pronotum ovoid, bearing a distinct median Y-shaped longitudinal stripe; forelegs fossorial, with four tibial dactyls; hind tibiae lacking inner subapical spurs; R vein of the tegmina branching into RA and RP; male stridulatory file with 69–83 teeth (22–26 teeth mm - 1); hind wings reaching the abdominal apex; epiphallus hourglass-shaped; apex of the median prolongation fan-shaped in dorsal view, approximately as wide as or slightly wider than the base of the median prolongation; transverse sclerite L-shaped in caudal view and V-shaped in dorsal view.</p><p>Description.</p><p>Male (holotype; Figs 1, 2). Body large, generally greyish brown (Fig. 1 A). Head (Fig. 1 B): vertex brown; ocelli small, ovoid, orange; compound eyes prominent, rounded; antennae yellowish brown, approximately twice as long as the pronotum. Thorax (Fig. 1 C, F – H): pronotum (Fig. 1 C) ovoid, 1.5 × as long as wide, bearing a distinct median Y-shaped longitudinal stripe; anterior margin emarginate; posterior margin rounded. Fore coxa (Fig. 1 F, G) robust, densely covered with long setae, with blunt processes along the anterior margin; fore femur subrectangular, with a distinct median protuberance on the ventral margin; fore tibial dactyls moderately long, ventral dactyl straight, dorsal dactyls slightly curved; inner tympanum (Fig. 1 G) slit-shaped. Hind tibia (Fig. 1 H) lacking inner subapical spurs; apex with four medial and three lateral spurs. Wings (Fig. 1 A, D, E): tegmina (Fig. 1 D) 1.78 × as long as wide, overlapping; venation symmetrical. R vein branching into RA and RP. M vein distinct, its distal portion bifurcating into two branches, the anterior branch joining RA and the posterior branch joining the r-cu crossvein. Harp enclosed by CuA, CuP, and the diagonal vein, inverted triangular in shape, tapering distally; cell 1 (c 1) ~ 1.08 × as large as cell 2 (c 2). Stridulatory file (Fig. 1 E) sinuate, with 69 teeth (22 teeth mm - 1). Hind wings fully developed, basal one-third concealed beneath the tegmina (Fig. 1 A). Abdomen (Fig. 1 A): slender and elongate, abdominal apex cylindrical; dorsum greyish brown. Phallic complex (Fig. 2): ectophallus with paired sclerotized parameres, each bearing an acute internal prolongation (Fig. 2 A); latero-basal plate (Fig. 2 A, C, D) gently curved upward along ventral margin; basal plate ovoid in ventral view (Fig. 2 A), subquadrate in lateral view (Fig. 2 D). Epiphallus (Fig. 2 B) hourglass-shaped; median prolongation of moderate length; apex of the median prolongation (Fig. 2 C) fan-shaped in dorsal view, as wide as or slightly wider than its base; apical margin (Fig. 2 C, inset) distinctly emarginate in caudal view. Transverse sclerite (Fig. 2 B) narrow, V-shaped in dorsal view and L-shaped in caudal view; apex of the transverse sclerite (Fig. 2 C, D) bifurcated, forming a short dorsal ramus and a long ventral ramus, the latter apically hooked.</p><p>Female (Fig. 3). Similar to male, differing mainly in size and several secondary characters. Body larger than in the male; coloration similar (Fig. 3 A). Head (Fig. 3 B): vertex brown, broader than in male; ocelli and compound eyes similar to those of the male; antennae brown, ~ 1.5 × as long as the pronotum. Thorax (Fig. 3 C, E – G): pronotum (Fig. 3 C) similar in shape to that of the male, slightly larger than that of the male; median Y-shaped stripe indistinct. Forelegs (Fig. 3 E, F) similar to those of the male but more robust. Hind legs (Fig. 3 G) similar, with femur and tibia slightly broader. Wings (Fig. 3 A, D): tegmina (Fig. 3 D) similar in size to those of the male, lacking an inverted-triangular harp; R vein branching as in the male; hind wings fully developed, surpassing the abdominal apex (Fig. 3 A). Abdomen (Fig. 3 A): more robust than in the male, not elongate; terminally cylindrical; dorsum light brown.</p><p>Measurements.</p><p>(means ± SD; Suppl. material 1: table SS 2) Male (n = 3): BL 4.64 ± 0.09 cm; PL 1.07 ± 0.06 cm; PW 0.71 ± 0.02 cm; TL 1.44 ± 0.11 cm; TW 0.81 ± 0.04 cm; HFL 0.83 ± 0.02 cm; HTL 0.65 ± 0.01 cm; SFL 0.32 ± 0.01 cm; NST 77.33 ± 7.37. Female (n = 2): BL 5.23 ± 0.04 cm; PL 1.39 ± 0.17 cm; PW 0.98 ± 0.08 cm; TL 1.55 ± 0.02 cm; TW 0.87 ± 0.04 cm; HFL 1.09 ± 0.01 cm; HTL 0.72 ± 0.01 cm.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The specific epithet refers to Xinjiang, the type locality of the species.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Known only from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwestern China.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>Gryllotalpa xinjiangica sp. nov. belongs to the G. gryllotalpa species complex. It most closely resembles G. unispina, but differs in several diagnostic features. The new species is generally greyish brown, whereas G. unispina is predominantly yellowish brown (Saussure 1877). In males, the stridulatory file bears fewer and more loosely arranged teeth (69–83 teeth; 22–26 teeth mm - 1), compared with 94–117 teeth (~ 41 teeth mm - 1) in G. unispina (Hu et al. 2026) . The hind wings reach the abdominal apex, whereas those of G. unispina distinctly surpass it (Saussure 1877). The male genitalia provide additional distinguishing characters. In G. xinjiangica sp. nov., the apex of the median prolongation is fan-shaped in dorsal view and is as wide as or slightly wider than its base, whereas in G. unispina it is shovel-shaped and noticeably narrower than the base of the median prolongation (Iorgu et al. 2016). In caudal view, the apical margin of the median prolongation is distinctly emarginate in the new species but only shallowly emarginate in G. unispina . The transverse sclerite is L-shaped in caudal view in both species but differs in dorsal view, appearing V-shaped in G. xinjiangica sp. nov. and broadly U-shaped in G. unispina . These differences were consistent across all examined specimens and, together with the other diagnostic characters, support the recognition of G. xinjiangica sp. nov. as a distinct species.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0534FFADB53955B684A17EAC128C8E04	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Gu, Ya-Rong;Deng, Xin-Lan;Zhu, Ling;Ma, Yan;Miao, Ying	Gu, Ya-Rong, Deng, Xin-Lan, Zhu, Ling, Ma, Yan, Miao, Ying (2026): A new species of Gryllotalpa (Orthoptera, Gryllotalpidae) from northwestern China, with notes on its mitochondrial genome. ZooKeys 1291: 75-92, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1291.203191
