Absonemobius Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993

Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure & Hugel, Sylvain, 2016, First occurrence of Nemobiinae crickets in the Lesser Antilles (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Trigonidiidae), with the descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 4168 (2), pp. 313-326 : 315

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Absonemobius Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993: 26 .

Type species. Absonemobius tesselatus Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993 .

Distribution. In South America, Absonemobius is known from Western ( Peru) and Eastern ( French Guiana) Amazonia ( Desutter-Grandcolas 1993). Its presence is confirmed in southern Central America with Hygronemobius darienicus Hebard, 1913 from Panama, transferred to Absonemobius in the present paper, and A. alatus Otte, 2006 from Costa Rica. It is attested here from the first time from the lesser Antilles ( A. septentrion , n. sp., A. lucensis , n. sp., A. vincenti , n. sp.).

Diagnosis and description. See Desutter-Grandcolas (1993).

Habitat. Diurnal species foraging in the leaf litter of closed rainforest.

Remark. A. septentrion n. sp., A. lucensis n. sp., A. vincenti n. sp., and A. alatus are all closely related. They are characterized by their asymmerical male genitalia, with a deep notch on the left side of pseudepiphallic sclerite, and the very long median lobes, fused into a long process, concave in lateral view. These characters may support the definition of a new genus, but as no morphological character supports this hypothesis we keep these species in the genus Absonemobius .