Lluciapomaresius nisae Olmo-Vidal

Olmo-Vidal, Josep Maria, 2017, Lluciapomaresius nisae, a new species of Ephippigerini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Bradyporinae) from the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, Zootaxa 4221 (1), pp. 123-130 : 124-126

Lluciapomaresius nisae Olmo-Vidal , new species

Material examined. Catalonia, Mola del Perelló , Tivissa (610 m), UTM: 31 TCF 14, 14 .X.2015, J. M. Olmo-Vidal leg. (1♂ holotype) (MCNB). Catalonia, Mola del Perelló, Tivissa (610 m), UTM: 31 TCF 14, 14 .X.2015, J. M. Olmo-Vidal leg. (1♂ paratype) (MCNB). Catalonia, Mola del Perelló, Tivissa (630 m), UTM: 31 TCF 14, 27 .X.2014, J. M. Olmo-Vidal leg. (2♀ paratypes) (MCNB). Catalonia, Mola del Perelló, Tivissa (610 m), UTM: 31 TCF 14, 13 .X.2016, J.M. Olmo-Vidal leg. (1♀ paratype).

Description. Male (Holotype). General coloration with the head, metazona and abdomen dark. Prozona, Tegmen, Legs and lateral part of terguites cram coloured. Fastigium verticis narrow, short-triangular, tip pointed, dorsally weakly grooved. The pronotun in dorsal view is square shaped just as long as wide ( Fig 2 ). Pronotum saddle-shaped, strongly wrinkled, front border upraised and concavely rounded, prozona as long as metazona.

Lateral carinae parallel to behind reaching hind margin of pronotum. Auditive spiracle narrow approximately four times high than wide. Tegmen reaching the margin of the first terguita of abdomen. Cells of tegmen disc small. Tenth (10th) tergite in midth half-circlic excised. Subgenital plate large, at base triangularly excised, hind margin incised as long as stylus which are rounded and truncate. The cerci are approximately equal width than long, cylindrical and robust basally. Internal margin straight. Inner tooth and terminal tooth of equal length. In dorsal view, internal tooth triangular ( Fig 4 ). The insertion of the internal tooth is angled to the cerci, long and divergent in angle obtuse in relation to the base. In the rear view internal tooth is long, three times longer than the width of the base ( Fig 5 ). In lateral view the apical tooth is straight and the internal tooth inserted in an angle of 30 degrees ( Fig 6 ). Epiproct triangularly rounded to half-circled. Titillators in dorsal view with apical branch close slightly curved to narrow the distal apex much longer than the baseline. Parts basal fused in between and broad narrowed towards the apex ( Fig 10 ). In lateral view, the basal branch very broad and high basely with the apical branch very bent towards down, toothed on the apical part ( Fig 11 ). Subgenital plate with the hind margin incised v-shaped emarginate.

Female. Cerci short, broad-conical. Seventh (7th) sclerite elongated with the posterior margin emarginated ( Fig 14 ). Subgenital plate almost square, posterior margin in repose also emarginated, laterally with the broad brown bands on both sides of the plate more strongly sclerotized ( Fig 14 ). Ovipositor in proximal half straight, apically slightly upcurved and weakly rasped ( Fig 16 ) with the base of the ventral valves transversally sulcated ( Fig 17 ). Sonogram of male. Oscillogram of male calling song of L. nisae sp. n. with the long echeme consisting of 5 syllables, recorded on 10.10.2015, 20 oC. The last closing hemisyllable (aprox. 390 ms) is about three times as long as the previous opening hemisyllable (aprox. 70 ms) without interval. The last hemisyllable is less intensive than the previous one ( Fig 20 ).

Etymology, This species is named after the dog “Nisa” dead in 2015, present in the prospection of L. nisae . Measurements. See Table 1 .

Additional material examined of L. panteli (all in MCNB col. J. M. Olmo-Vidal). Catalonia, La Morera de Montsant (1043 m), UTM:31 TCF 27 20.IX.2008, J. Barat leg. (1♀, 1♂) . Catalonia, Albarca (790 m), UTM: 31 TCF 27, 15 .X.2014, D. Martínez leg. (1♂, 2♀) . Catalonia, Ulldemolins (675 m), UTM: 31 TCF 27, 15 .X.2015, E. Piera leg. (1♂) . Catalonia, La Morera de Montsant (1043 m), UTM:31 TCF 27 10.X.2014, J.M. Olmo-Vidal leg. (1♂) .

Figures

FIGURES 2 – 9. Dorsal view of Pronotum of males. Holotype of L. nisae (2) and male of L. panteli from Albarca, Montsant (3). Cerci of males in dorsal, in rear and in lateral view of holotype of L. nisae (4, 5, 6) and L. panteli from Albarca, Montsant (7, 8, 9).

FIGURES 10 – 13. Titillators in dorsal and lateral view. Holotype of L. nisae (10,11), L. panteli from Albarca, Montsant (12,13).

FIGURES 14 – 15. Ventral sclerites and subgenital plates of paratype of L. nisae (14) and L. panteli (15, redrawn according to Barat 2012).

FIGURES 16 – 19. Ovipositors in lateral view and the base of the ventral valves of paratype of L. nisae (16, 17), L. panteli from Albarca, Montsant (18) and L. panteli (redrawn according to Barat 2012).

FIGURE 20 – 21. Male song of holotype of L. nisae (20) and L. panteli (21, redrawn according to Pfau & Pfau 2015): a, opening-hemisyllable (sound produced by the opening movement of the tegmina); b, closing-hemisyllable (sound produced by the closing movement of the tegmina) (see also Pfau & Pfau, 2015).

Tables

TABLE 1. Biometrics (mean in mm ± s. d.) of Lluciapomaresius nisae n. sp. and L. panteli TL = Total length; PL = Length of pronotum; PH = Heigth of pronotum; HFL = Length of hind femora; OL = Length of ovipositor. The holotype is included in males mean measurements.

	TL	PL	PH	HFL	OL
holotype	27.59	7.43	7.32	17.39
L. nisae Ƌ (n=2)	26.96±0.8	7.49±0.1	7.14±0.2	17.51±0.1
L. nisae ♀ (n=3)	30.56±2.7	7.96±0.3	7.16±0.2	17.42±1.2	14.67±0.1
L. panteli Ƌ (n=4)	25.60±3.7	7.74±0.6	7.27±0.5	16.35±0.2
L. panteli ♀ (n=3)	25.9±2.8	7.96±0.2	7.10±0.7	16.18±0.8	13.17±0.7