Phalangopsina chopardi, Desutter-Grandcolas, 2012

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 : 21-22

Phalangopsina (?) chopardi Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp.

( Figs 7 F, 8H–L, Table 4)

Type material: Holotype, female, Kod[aikanal] Dec[oly]/ Arachnopsis dubius (handwritten label) / Syntype [of Phalangopsina dubia ], test. M. Paris, 1991, / Ex. Coll. Pantel (MNHN-ENSIF2966).

Note: As mentioned above, this female belongs to the syntype series of P. dubia in Pantel Collection ( Paris, 1994) and has been designated here as a paralectotype of P. dubia .

Examined material: Female holotype, MNHN-ENSIF2966.

Diagnosis. Species resembling P. bolivari Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp. by its general colouration, but differing by its larger size, its less transverse pronotum, its TIII inner apical spurs (median longer than the dorsal) and reduced serrulation, the distinctly filiform apical part of its FIII (related to its larger size?) and its copulatory papilla. Colouration: head as in P. dubia and P. b o l i v a r i Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp. but face darker and shining; cheeks less marked with yellow; pronotum lateral lobes dark brown; tibiae and femora I and II with four brown rings each, but only the two apical ones well developed in FI and II; TIII with six brown flecks on dorsal side, yellowish ventrally except for distal ring; FIII with three brown rings in distal half, and brown stripes on outer side ( Fig. 7 F). Male unknown. Female. Ovipositor straight, distinctly longer than FIII, about 12 mm long. Female genitalia. Copulatory papilla distinctly devoid of an elongate distal part (compare figs 8F, G and 8K, L); apex truncated.

Description. Species of medium size. Head. Fastigium wider than the scape, but not as wide as in P. dubia and P. bolivari Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp., the distance between the lateral ocelli slightly shorter than the distance between one lateral and the median ocelli; eyes somewhat protruding. Palpi missing. Scape longer than wide ( Fig. 8 H). Pronotum. Less transverse than in P. dubia , and anterior angles of lateral lobes more produced dorsally. Legs. PI missing. TII with two apical spurs, the inner longer than the outer. FIII with a long filiform apical part ( Fig. 7 E). TIII setose; four pairs of subapical spurs, the outers longer than the inners and set less distally on TIII than inner spurs; three pairs of apical spurs: dorsal spur the longest on outer side as in P. b o l i v a r i ( Fig. 8 D), but dorsal inner spur slightly shorter than the median ( Fig. 8 I); inner serrulation absent, except for one spine sometimes present between spurs 3 and 4, and above spur 4; outer serrulation: zero to two spines between spurs 1 and 2, four to six spines between spurs 2 and 3, five spines between spurs 3 and 4, one or two spines above spurs. Basitarsomeres III with only one row with two small spines on outer dorsal margin, in addition to distal spines.

Colouration. Close to that of P. bolivari Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp. but face darker and shining; vertex variegated yellow and brown; cheeks brown, only the posterior angle and margin yellow; pronotum dark brown laterally, variegated brown and yellow dorsally; tibiae and femora I and II with four brown rings each, but the two basal ones not complete in FI and II; TIII with six brown flecks on dorsal side, yellowish ventrally except for distal ring; FIII with three brown rings in distal half, and brown stripes on outer side ( Fig. 7 E). Tergites brown to black brown, with rows of yellow dots. Sternites lighter.

Male. Unknown.

Female. Subgenital plate brown; distal margin only slightly sinuate ( Fig. 8 J). Ovipositor long and straight, its apex neither widened, nor ornemented.

Female genitalia. Copulatory papilla resembling that of P. dubia and P. bolivari Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp. by its general shape and its height, but without an elongate distal part; apex truncated ( Fig. 8 K, L).

Measurements. See Table 4.

Habitat. Unknown.

Pron-L W-Pron Wmax-pron FIII-L TIII-L Ovip-L Holotype 2.4 3.0 3.6 11.7 12.1 12.3

Figures

FIGURE 7. Phalangopsina dubia (Bolivar, 1900). A, Female lectotype, colouration of head and pronotum, lateral; B – D, female paralectotype, colouration, lateral (B), dorsal (C), FIII, outer side (D). Phalangopsina bolivari Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp., E, FIII colouration, outer side. Phalangopsina chopardi Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp., F, FIII colouration, outer side. Phalangopsina gravelyi Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp., G, body colouration, dorsal; H, FIII colouration, outer side. Scales 1 mm.

FIGURE 8. Phalangopsina bolivari Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp. (A – G) and Phalangopsina chopardi Desutter-Grandcolas n. sp. (H – L). A, H, scape, anterior side; B, maxillary palpus; C, D, I, apical spurs of hind tibia, inner (C, I), outer (D); E, J, female subgenital plate; F, G, K, L, female copulatory papilla, dorsal (F, K), lateral (G, L). Abbreviations, see text p. ***. Scales 1 mm.