Asonicogryllus kwanghua, Liu & Shen & Zhang & He, 2019

Liu, Yun-Fei, Shen, Chu-Ze, Zhang, Ling & He, Zhu-Qing, 2019, A new genus of cricket with one new species from western Yunnan, China (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae), Zootaxa 4577 (2), pp. 393-394 : 393-394

Asonicogryllus kwanghua sp. nov. ( Fig. 1 A–E)

Holotype: male, CHINA, Yunnan, Dehong, Yingjiang, Nabang town , 28-iv-2018, coll. He Zhu-Qing.

Paratypes: 1 female, same data as holotype .

Description. Male. Head: shining, vertex little protruding, frontal rostrum flat, 2 times as wide as the 1st antennal joint, median ocellus as big as lateral ocelli and located obviously lower than lateral ocelli, maxillary palpi normal; thorax: disc of pronotum as wide as head, anterior and posterior margin almost straight, rounded borders between disc and lateral lobes, no tympanum, forewing half the length of pronotum, touching each other near pronotum, veins not distinct, stridulatory vein absent. Hind tibia with 5 pairs of dorsal spines, three inner apical spurs (two long and one short) and three outer spurs (middle one longer); abdomen: pubescent. Genitalia: described in genus characters.

Female. Similar to male, ovipositor elongate, straight with apical part slightl;y curved upwards.

Coloration. Male. Head and pronotum black, antenna brown, legs brown with many small black spots, cercus brown.

Etymology. kwanghua is named after the Kwang Hua University (1925-1951) in Shanghai.

Measurements (in mm).

Male: body length 11.38, pronotum length 2.74, hind femur length 7.43, forewing length 1.25

Female: body length 12.56, pronotum length 2.96, hind femur length 7.97, forewing length 1.21, ovipositor length 7.94.

Distribution. China (Yunnan).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Asonicogryllus kwanghua: A, male; B, female; C, genitalia in dorsal view; D, genitalia in ventral view; E, genitalia in lateral view.