Hemierianthus mbongueensis Yetchom & Xu, 2019
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4706.2.6 |
publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:199BA04E-0EBE-438D-8A0F-20BFDA9D94B4 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/540087ED-DE33-1152-06E4-FCAECB38FED7 |
treatment provided by |
Plazi |
scientific name |
Hemierianthus mbongueensis Yetchom & Xu |
status |
sp. nov. |
Hemierianthus mbongueensis Yetchom & Xu sp.nov.
http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera .species.org:TaxonName:507752
Figs. 7B View FIGURE 7 , 8–9 View FIGURE 8 View FIGURE 9 .
Material. Holotype: male, Cameroon, Littoral Region: type locality: Kompina, Mbongue village , 04°21’25’’N, 09°35’22’’E; Coll. Jeanne Agrippine YETCHOM-FONDJO; deposited in the Entomological Museum, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China. GoogleMaps
Description of male: body compressed, of medium size; integument rugose; fastigium of vertex longer, upcurved, with truncate apex and median carina present; fastigial foveola present, larger; interocular distance wider; face strongly flattened; antenna filiform, much shorter than head and pronotum together and 12 segmented; pronotum strongly saddle-shaped, without lateral carinae, median carina parabolic and crossed by two sulci, posterior margin concave, obtuse; prozona longer than metazona; ventral posterior angle of lateral lobes of pronotum substraight; lateral lobes of pronotum longer than its width; anterior margin of mesosternum strongly projected; elytra and wings fully developed, exciding end of abdomen and hind knee, oblique, almost touching dorsum of apophysis in resting position, with truncate apex; tympanum absent; precostal area of tegmina expanded; lower basal lobe of hind femur longer than upper one; anterior and median femora compressed, with expanded external margins; hind femur above with one light pre-apical ring; hind tibia with a small basal lobiform expansion; hind tibia with 17 outer and 15 inner spines; first segment of hind tarsus above with three teeth; inner posterior margins of terminal lobes of abdomen clearly overlapped, curved downward at apices, with very strong odontiform apophysis having strongly incurved apical part; apex of odontiform apophysis distant to the large basal part; inner margin of apophysis toothed in the middle; posterior margin of the 9 th abdominal tergite with a triangular median expansion; median expansion of the 10 thabdominal tergite clearly longer than lateral expansions of the 9 th abdominal tergite, dorsum slightly narrow in the middle, both terminal lobes separated in apical part, with expanded and truncate apices; terminal part of cerci angularly bent; apex of cerci narrow, with a downcurved spine; subgenital plate with incomplete median carina, posterior part triangular.
Coloration: body dark brownish; face dark yellowish, with one yellowish spot between eyes; basal segment of antenna dark in basal half and light yellow in apical half; anterior and median legs light yellow; inner side of hind femur with light basal median area; hind femur with a light pre-apical ring; hind tibia dark, with two light rings; elytra dark brownish, with yellow veins; wing completely dark.
Female: unknown
Measurements. Length of male body (from anterior margin of head to apex of subgenital plate): 17.35 mm; antenna: 3.48 mm; pronotum: 3.75 mm; tegmen: 15.29 mm; wing: 13.94 mm; hind femur: 10.93 mm.
Diagnosis: The new species Hemierianthus mbongueensis Yetchom & Xu sp.nov. is similar to H. bule from Cameroon and H. descarpentriesi from Gabon, from which it differs by the characters mentioned in the table 2 View TABLE 2 below.
Distribution. Cameroon, Littoral region, Kompina, Mbongue.
Etymology. The new species is named after the type locality.
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.
Kingdom |
|
Phylum |
|
Class |
|
Order |
|
Family |
|
Genus |