Cryptocercus meridianus Grandcolas F Legendre, 2005

Grandcolas, Philippe, Legendre, Frédéric, Park, Yung Chul, Bellés, Xavier, Murienne, Jérôme & Pellens, Roseli, 2005, The genus Cryptocercus in East Asia: distribution and new species (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Blattaria, Polyphagidae), Zoosystema 27 (4), pp. 725-732 : 727-729

Cryptocercus meridianus Grandcolas F Legendre , n. sp.

( Figs 1A , E-G; 2B)

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype *, China, Yunnan, Lijiang , cloud conifera forest, 3100 m, 23.VII.1993 ( MNHN).

TYPE LOCALITY. — Lijiang, Yunnan, China.

ETYMOLOGY. — The species is named according to its very southern locality in China, near the border with Vietnam.

MEASUREMENTS. — Body length: *, 24 mm. Pronotum length: *, 5.3 mm.

DESCRIPTION

Medium-sized species with a slender body. Body except pronotum smooth, not punctuated. Pronotum ( Fig. 2B ) with few and weak protuberances, except a protruding fore margin. Fore femora ( Fig. 1E ) with ventro-anterior margin with five spines not equally spaced and of roughly increasing size toward the apex. Male subgeni- t a l p l a t e (F i g. 1A) w i t h a w i d e a n d g e n t l y rounded margin between styli.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 1F, G )

Sclerite L2d with an angular apex. Dorsal part of L2v also angular with a tooth protruding dorsoinnerly. Ventral part of L2v wide and strong. L1 with a rounded apex bearing one spine on the left and an expanded basis. R3d bulbose and slightly unsclerotized innerly, with the basal part sharp.

DNA sequences

The mitochondrial genes 12S and 16S have been partly sequenced for that species and are available on line in the EMBL database under the accession numbers AJ519679 and AJ519678 respectively.

Figures

FIG. 1. — A, E-G, Cryptocercus meridianus Grandcolas & Legendre, n. sp.; A, subgenital plate; E, fore femora; F, left phallomere of male genitalia; G, sclerite R3d of male genitalia; B, D, H-J, N-P, C. parvus Grandcolas & Park, n. sp.; B, subgenital plate; D, fore femora; H, left phallomere of male genitalia; I, J, sclerite R3d of male genitalia; N, spermatheca; O, right basivalvula in female genitalia; P, laterosternite IX in female genitalia; C, K-M, C. hirtus Grandcolas & Bellés, n. sp., C, fore femora; K, spermatheca; L, right basivalvula in female genitalia; M, laterosternite IX in female genitalia. Abbreviations: sclerites L3, L2d, L2v, L1 of male genitalia (nomenclature from Grandcolas [1996], modified after McKittrick [1964]). Scale bars: 1 mm.

FIG. 2. — Pronotums of Cryptocercus species; A, C. hirtus Grandcolas & Bellés, n. sp., pronotum length: 5.8 mm; B, C. meridianus Grandcolas & Legendre, n. sp., pronotum length: 5.3 mm; C, C. parvus Grandcolas & Park, n. sp., pronotum length: 5.0 mm.