Arachnomimus maindroni ( Chopard, 1969 ) Chopard, 1969

Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure & Jaiswara, Ranjana, 2012, Phalangopsidae crickets from the Indian Region (Orthoptera, Grylloidea), with the descriptions of new taxa, diagnoses for genera, and a key to Indian genera, Zootaxa 3444, pp. 1-39 : 9

Arachnomimus maindroni ( Chopard, 1969) , n. comb.

( Figs 1 G–I, 2)

Kempiola maindroni Chopard, 1969: 254 .

Type locality. India, Coromandel coast, Gangi.

Type material. Holotype: 1 female, India, Coromandel, Gangi, 1901 (M. Maindron) (MNHN-ENSIF2955) (palpi, PI and right PII missing).

Diagnosis. Large species ( Fig. 2 A) characterized by the colouration of its face ( Fig. 2 C), pronotum ( Fig. 2 D, E) and FIII ( Fig. 2 H), ovipositor length (15 mm) and shape of copulatory papilla (long, socket-like, with a distinctly bifid dorsal sclerotization, Fig. 1 G, H). Subgenital and supra anal plates as on Fig. 2 F, G. TIII apical spurs as on Fig. 1 I (inner side) and 1J (outer side, here in Arachnomimus nietneri ). Measurements, see Chopard 1969 (p. 254).

Remark. Originally described by Chopard in the genus Kempiola , this species differs from K. longipes by its very distinctive copulatory papilla, identical to that of other Arachnomimus species. The other distinctive characters of this last genus (lack of tympanum, male genitalia) cannot be checked with the specimen at hand, but the female genitalia are so characteristic of the genus that generic identity is clear.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Female copulatory papilla (A – H) in: A, Cacoplistes sp, female identified Cachoplistus rogenhoferi Saussure, 1877 by L. Chopard (specimen MNHN-ENSIF 2960, Tonkin, Dong Daky), distal view; B – C, Meloimorpha japonica (specimen MNHN-ENSIF 2963, Japan, Kyoto), ventral (B), lateral (C); D – F, Homoeogryllus xanthographus Guérin-Méneville, 1847 (specimen MNHN-ENSIF 2944, Tchad, Amdjamena), dorsal (D), ventral (E), lateral (F); G – H, Arachnomimus maindroni (Chopard, 1969), n. comb., dorsal (G), lateral (H). Hind tibia apical spurs in: I, Arachnomimus maindroni (Chopard, 1969), n. comb. inner spurs; J, Arachnomimus nietneri (Saussure, 1878), outer spurs. Scale 1 mm.

FIGURE 2. Arachnomimus maindroni (Chopard, 1969), n. comb. A, female holotype, dorsal, scale 5 mm; B, head, dorsal; C, face, front view; D, pronotum, dorsal; E, head, pronotum and first tergites, lateral; F, supra anal plate; G, subgenital plate; H, hind femur, outer side.