Stenopelmatus, Burmeister, 1838

Weissman, David B., Song, Hojun & Vandergast, Amy G., 2024, Phylogenomics, male internal genitalia, a new species, and other notes on New World Stenopelmatus Jerusalem crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatoidea: Stenopelmatini), Zootaxa 5443 (2), pp. 237-252 : 240-241

Stenopelmatus additions to our 2021 data set

(1) S. ater : One of only two named Costa Rican Stenopelmatus species (the other being the fully winged S. sartorianus Saussure ), we sequenced material ( Fig. 1 , specimen F2321), provided by Oscar Cadena-Castañeda, of a male S. ater from Parque Nacional Tapantí, Cartago Province, Costa Rica. The male’s multilocus DNA was recovered with S. nuevoguatemalae n. sp., S. honduras Weissman , and S. cusuco Weissman. Jorge Gutiérrez-Rodríguez has also informed us (personal communication to DBW, 18-ii-2023) that he has a third, but undescribed, Costa Rican species ( Fig. 2 ) from Ascensión Chirripó, Cartago Province, 9.463525° -83.571862°, that, according to Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón (personal communication to DBW, 18-ii-2023), is recovered, despite being apterous, in the broad Central American species group of Gutiérrez-Rodríguez et. al. (2022). Interestingly, when DBW examined the Costa Rican INBio collection in the early 2000s, he only saw specimens of the two described taxa.

(2) S. hondurasito Weissman : We sequenced leg F0470 of a second individual, from the type locality, of this non-jumping species that confirmed no error when the leg of the first individual (F0644) was previously recovered ( Weissman et al. 2021) in a larger clade with several jumping species.

(3) S. nuevoleon Weissman : Sample F 1369, from a paratype female, was sequenced in Weissman et al. (2021) from a locality ( DBW Stop 03-105) some 80 km due north of the type locality. We herein present the results of the allotype female (F1370), from the type locality, and report ( Fig. 1 ) that both samples are recovered closest to each other and apparently represent the same taxon.

In summary, our latest results add further information (see Fig. 1 ) to our previous multilocus tree (see Fig. 10 in Weissman et al. 2021); continue to demonstrate the monophyletic origins of both New World JC genera Stenopelmatus and Ammopelmatus ; and confirm the phylogenetic relationship of the pure black, hopping, wingless Costa Rican endemic S. ater Saussure & Pictet , which was recovered in our 3-gene Bayesian analysis (in Fig. 9 , Weissman et al. 2021) but not in our multigene ASTRAL analysis (in Fig. 10 , Weissman et al. 2021).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Orthoptera-specific target enrichment (OR-TE) analysis. We find both families Anostostomatidae and Stenopelmatidae (as indicated by an *) to be paraphyletic. Family Schizodactylidae is shown to be distantly related to both Anostostomatidae and Stenopelmatidae.

FIGURE 2. Third, but unnamed, species of Stenopelmatus from Costa Rica, this specimen from Ascensión Chirripó, Cartago Province, 9.463525° -83.571862°. Photo Jorge Gutiérrez-Rodríguez.

FIGURE 9. Ovipositor, holotype adult S. nuevoguatemalae. Photo Dan Weissman.

FIGURE 10. Face, holotype adult female S. nuevoguatemalae. Photo Dan Weissman.