Hirrius mindanaensis Günther, 1938

Skejo, Josip, Husemann, Martin, Jr, Romeo Patano, Tumbrinck, Josef, Pushkar, Taras I., Pavlović, Marko, Mohagan, Alma, Pamin, Jan-Henrik & Kasalo, Niko, 2024, Revision of the polyphyletic genus Hirrius Bolívar, 1887 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae), with descriptions of three new genera and insights into antennal sensilla morphology, Zootaxa 5524 (1), pp. 1-61 : 14-19

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5524.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14035957

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scientific name

Hirrius mindanaensis Günther, 1938
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Hirrius mindanaensis Günther, 1938 View in CoL

Vernacular name: Western Mindanao Blackhopper ( Figs 7 View FIGURE 7 , 8 View FIGURE 8 , 9 View FIGURE 9 , 10 View FIGURE 10 , 11 View FIGURE 11 )

Historical mentions: As Hirrius mindanaensis Günther 1938: 304 ; Petersen & Gaedike 1970: 166; Blackith 1992: 90; Skejo 2017: 121.

Type specimens. 2♀♀ syntypes and 1♂ syntype with same labels: ‘ Mindanao W. Schultze’ ‘Iligan’ ‘Lanao’ ‘Syntypus’ ‘ Hirrius mindanaensis n. sp. K. Günther det.’ ( SDEI) ( Günther 1938) .

Published records: 2♀♀ the Philippines: Mindanao Isl. : Lanao del Norte: Mumungan , Collector: W. Schultze, det. K. K. Günther ( SMTD) ( Günther 1938) ; 1 ♀ Philippines: Mindanao : Zamboanga del Norte: Sandayong , VIII.2020. det. 2022 J. Tumbrinck ( CJT) ( Cigliano et al. 2023) .

Additional records.

Museum records:

1 ♀ + 1♂ Philippines: Mindanao : Zamboanga del Norte: Sandayong , VIII.2020. det. 2022 J. Tumbrinck ( ZMH) ; 1 ♀ + 1♂ Philippines: Mt. Agad-Agad ( Barangay Tipanoy , Sitio Pendugangan , Iligan, Lanao del Norte) 305 m a. s. l. 28.-30.XI.2020. leg. R. Patano Jr. ( CMU) .

Online social media records:

1♂ Philippines: Zamboanga del Sur: Lapaz Experimental Forestry 920 m a. s. l. observed on 31.I.2020. by iNaturalist user @anncabras24, available at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/38141140 .

Diagnosis. Hirrius mindanaensis shares characters with its congeners, but there is a set of characters by which it can be easily distinguished from H. punctatus and H. ruber sp. nov.: (1) alae are visible under the pronotum in lateral view (also visible in H. ruber sp. nov., but not in H. punctatus ); (2) prozonal carinae are distinct, while they are literally absent in H. punctatus and H. ruber sp. nov.; (3) hind femora visibly robust (much slenderer in H. punctatus and H. ruber sp. nov.); (4) abdominal sternites dark, similar to H. punctatus , while H. ruber sp. nov. has bright red sternites; (5) slightly larger than H. ruber sp. nov. (see measurements); (6) pronotum of variable coloration, but generally with much paler ornamentation than in H. punctatus and H. ruber sp. nov., which both have bright red and yellow markings.

Syntype measurements (female). Body length from tip of head to the tip of pronotum 10.85 mm; eye width 0.70 mm, vertex width 0.95 mm; pronotum length 10.05 mm; pronotum width (at shoulders) 3.40 mm; fore femur length 2.80 mm; fore femur width 0.70 mm; mid femur length 2.85; mid femur width 0.70; hind femur length 6.10 mm; hind femur width 2.45 mm.

Syntype measurements (male). Body length from tip of head to the tip of pronotum 8.90 mm; eye width 0.65 mm; vertex width 0.80 mm; pronotum length 7.80 mm; pronotum width (at shoulders) 2.80 mm; fore femur length 2.25 mm; fore femur width 0.50 mm; mid femur length 2.35 mm; mid femur width 0.60 mm; hind femur length 4.80 mm; hind femur width 2.10 mm.

Distribution and habitat. Western Mindanao Blackhopper inhabits lowland and mountainous tropical rainforests of Mindanao, where it can be found from 100 m a. s. l. up to 950 m a. s. l. in the regions around the lake of Lanao (e.g., Lanao del Norte) and on the Zamboanga Peninsula (in e.g., Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur) ( Fig. 2B View FIGURE 2 ).

SMTD

Germany, Dresden, Museum fuer Tierkunde

CJT

CJT

ZMH

USA, Illinois, Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History (also used by Finnish Museum of Natural History)

ZMH

Zoologisches Museum Hamburg

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tetrigidae

Genus

Hirrius

Loc

Hirrius mindanaensis Günther, 1938

Skejo, Josip, Husemann, Martin, Jr, Romeo Patano, Tumbrinck, Josef, Pushkar, Taras I., Pavlović, Marko, Mohagan, Alma, Pamin, Jan-Henrik & Kasalo, Niko 2024
2024
Loc

Hirrius mindanaensis Günther 1938: 304

Gunther 1938: 304
1938
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